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CLAN MACMILLAN SOCIETY (Australia) NEWSLETTER NO.42 DECEMBER 1997 OFFICE BEARERS : Vice-President: Pr es ident: Elizabeth Mc Hillan Kaelene Blake P.O. Box 241 11 Grace Street ELW OOD VIC. 318 4 Melton SOuth Vic.3338 Phone 95319372 Fa x(03)953 19 3 47 Phone: 9743 9947 E.ai1 libbymcm90zemail.com.au Catmittee: MACMILLAN Secretary: Myrna Rol:ertsco 8/4 Renver Road Peter 5 Keyes Street CusT E\orx;J ,of ,Jut" ...d ... 1o.I<td b",...tul,,,v d _ Iv""d, , •• Mono . M", ,.,,, tuCn.1'rrrt diud (/ I, ,",, I. A ... "." II., JII /, ..",I) CAnst N.....u . M"",(jhlll •• Clayton vic. 3166 Phone:9543 5429 Treas/ Editor June Senior 41 L:ino::lln Ave, GJ:.a,I WAVERLEY VIC 3150 Phone: 9560 8746 Linden Park S .A.5065 Phone: (08)8338 1029 June DanIa:> 66 Campbell Street EAST KEW VIC 3102 Phone: 9817 3148 AUSTRALIA WELCOMES CLAN CHIEF Page 1

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CLAN MACMILLAN SOCIETY (Australia) NEWSLETTER NO42 DECEMBER 1997

OFFICE BEARERS Vice-President Pres ident Elizabeth Mc Hillan Kaelene Blake

PO Box 241 11 Grace Street ELWOOD VIC 3184 Melton SOuth Vic3338 Phone 95319372 Fax(03)953 19 3 47 Phone 9743 9947 Eai1 libbymcm90zemailcomau Catmittee

MACMILLAN Secretary Myrna Rolertsco 84 Renver Road

Peter ~llan 5 Keyes Street

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Clayton vic 3166 Phone9543 5429

Treas Editor June Senior 41 Linolln Ave GJaI WAVERLEY VIC 3150 Phone 9560 8746

Linden Park S A5065 Phone (08)8338 1029 June DanIagt 66 Campbell Street EAST KEW VIC 3102 Phone 9817 3148

AUSTRALIA WELCOMES CLAN CHIEF

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We hope that all members families and friends who came to the Gathering of the Clan MacMillan Society of Australia on the 2 November 1997 enjoyed themselves It was a very special occasion to welcome the Chief of the Clan George MacMi llan of MacMillan and Knap and his wife Jane

The Gathering was held at the United Kingdom Settlers Association in South Yarra Victoria The program enabled plenty of time for people to meet and talk to George and Jane and to everyone who had come to the Gathering There were approximately 100 people present with apologies from members who were unable to attend Donald Macmillan Foundation President of the Clan MacMillan Society of Australia was present as was Russell Harrison from Sydney who is the current Australian and New Zealand representati ve on the Clan Centre Committee There were a number of people from country Victoria and the McMillan family from South Australia who are regulars at our AGM each year made a special trip across

When George and Jane arrived they were piped in by Len Tresize and accompanied by the Chief of the Council of Clans The Clan Society made a formal presentation on behalf of the members George suggested that each family group should introduce themselves so that others could hear who was there and so make ccnnections with each other This resulted in some people making connections with others from within their family tree whom they had not met before

June Senior who is the Societys current Treasurer and Editor and is also a former President of the Clan MacMillan Society of Australia was presented with an award by the Chief of the Clan June was made a Companion of the Community of the Tonsured Servant honoris causa for distinguished service to the Clan MacMillan Society of Australia The presenting of this award was a great honor for June her husband Max and her three daughters and their families who were all present We were all proud of June and again pass on our ccngratulations to her and our appreciation for the work that she has undertaken over the years and is continuing to undertake on beha~ of us all in the Society

The Committee through one of the members Myrna Robinson organised some displays of Scottish Country Dancing by St Andrews Mordialloc Scottish Country Dance Group and also some Highland dancing by Tracy Watson and Michelle Stokes George and Jane enjoyed this segment and the dancing added an additional atmosphere of celebration to this very special occasion

We were pleased to welcome many other Clan Societies ~ Robert Johnstone and his wife Marion Chief of the Council of Clans

Commissioner of the Clan Johnstone ~ Joe Mortan President of Clan Douglas ~ Max MacAlister President of the Clan MacAlister ~ Olive McLennan Secretary of the Clan MacLennan ~ John MacRae President of the Clan MacRae )- Don Moore Commissioner of Victoria of the MacKenzie Clan ~ Olive Moore Secretary of the MacKenzie Clan ~ Robert Mair and John Cornall Reilly President and Secretary of the Clan Mar)

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gt Brian Morrison and Norma Morrison President amp Secretary of the Clan Morrison gt Barbara Morrison Secretary of the Council of Clans and also with Howard

Morrison - Committee members of the Clan Morrison gt Mairi Mcintosh Scottish Gaelic Society of Victoria

We received formal apologies andlor greetings from the following Clan Societies gt Dr Ian Cameron from the Clan Cameron and High Commissioner for Lochiel in

Australia and his wife Beth gt Ian McDougall (President of the Clan McDougall) and his wife Joan who send

their greetings gt Beth Bell Clan McNicholl (also a member of the Clan MacMillan Society) gt Ronald and Lesley Robb President and Secretary of the MacFarlane Clan gt Clan Fraser gt Don MacMillan from the Clan MacMillan Society of America

As President I would like to express my appreciation and the appreciation of George and Jane to all those involved in the organisation of the Gathering and also to those who attended George and Jane have written and thanked us for our gifts and also for the fYeat parly w(th rnltNI1Y rnemorable-~ The Clan Societys Committee members worked hard in the preparation for the day - thanks to all Committee members Also we were grateful to the United Kingdom Settlers Association for the venue and their active involvement and participation

There were some MacMilians and Sept members present at the Gathering who were not actual members of the Society but who have now joined As always we are looking for new members and when the Committee discusses membership issues we are aware that one of the main reasons why people might choose to join is to increase their access to genealogical information and contacts

I recently opened my email to receive a message from a person in Mt Gambier who had come across my name through searching the internet She had started at a Web site about bagpipes and moved on from there I have returned her email message She told me that her family came from Corpach out of Fort William Also I was recently contacted by another McMillan who told me that her family came from County Derry The internet is becoming a great source of information and contacts as is email communication - enabling us to be in touch so easily across the world and so quickly If you are connected to email Graeme Mackenzie from the Clan Centre has sent me a list of all the email addresses that he has of Clan members around the world The list is not long - but perhaps we can add to it for him if you send me your email addresses This would also enable the Society to keep a listing of emaH contacts for members in Australia My address is

libbymcmozemail comau

We- wal-~ 1997 CI4 C opeetaU yecw wherv Geor~ ~ JIM1-e ~ to- OW ~~~ whervJfMb S~ WCl4

CWJeMded- w(th the Compcvruov 1umorf4-~ by the Chpoundef of the cLIMv A chr-i$~etpp~ the Committee--w~yoev cUI wtelty ~~Chr-i$~~ C happy YpoundW yecw

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C~y of ~ T~ed SeflCUIt A C~y of Honor ~wttJ~C~1-fcufalant F~Lltmlt

]IMUJSetIioY - COMPANION horzQriv~ an award presented to persons who have serviced with distinction either the Scottish Heritage or Clan MacMillan

The Tonsured Servant after whom the Community of the Tonsured Servant is named was a married Celtic monk of a Culdee monastery at Old Sprynie near Elgin in Moray Scotland His Gaelic Baptismal name was Gillchrist in English SelVant of Christ Celtic monks wore the Tonsure of St John in contrast to the form known as the Tonsure of Saint Peter introduced to the British Isles in the seventh century by the Benedictine monks led by St Augustine of Canterbury Gillchrist lived in later times of turbulent change when usages of the Roman Church were being imposed upon the Scottish Church by the descendents of Queen Margaret canonized as middota saint for her loyalty to Rome Gillchrist held to the old ways and earned for himself the nickname of Gillamaol the Tonsured SelVant as a consequence of his continued use of the proscribed Celtic hairstyle He was nicknamed Molini in Latin a name then Anglicized as Millan His father Cormac the last Celtic Abbot of Dunkeld converted to the Roman Church and was appointed as the first Catholic Bishop of Dunkeld Gillchrist evidently refused to follow his fathers example and was banished to Lochaber There are references to him to be found in the Latin notes in the margins of an eleventh century manuscript of the Book of Deer now in the Cambridge University Library Gillchrist had a son Malcolm first to adopt the surname MacMillan or Son of Millan From Gillchrist and this son Clan MacMillan is descended The Community of the Tonsured Servant seeks to honor the rich heritage bequeathed to the Clan and its members by them

The Clan MacMillan is a not-far-profit educational and charitable trust founded to support the Clan Centre and a Museum at Finlaystone the Scottish estate of the Macmillan Clan Chief and to provide funds for various charitable and educational ventures undertaken in the Spirit of the motto of the Clan and its Chief - miseris succurrere disco - (I learn to show mercy to the unfortunate) Governance of the Foundation is to be exercised by trustees and officers representative of MacMillan Clan Societies and branches around the world and elected by their membership At present the Foundation is being administered by the Chapter of The Community of the Tonsured Servant When the incorporation of the Chapter has been completed it is intended that the Community of the Tonsured Servant will be a subsidiary to the Foundation serving primarily as the fund raising and educational instrumentality for the Foundation The Community is the fellowship of the Companions of Honor patterned after a Celtic Religious Order to which Gillchrist belonged he being the progenitor of Clan MacMillan and the source of its name The Foundation will be an entity established under

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Russel l Harrison has Kindly sent me the following information for members interested in compiling their Family History We are very appreciative of Russell s help

CLAN MACMIL(AN

From Russell Harrison Phone 00 11-61-2-9804-8275 Fax 001 H i 1-2-9804-8276 E-Mail lremhmatrdcomau Mobde 0414-754087 Date 09-11-1997 Address PO Box 50 WeSt Ryde or 44 Glenayr Ave West Ryde NSW 2114 Australia

Dear Clan Member

PROJECT MAOL INTRODUCTION At the recent Clan Gathering in Melbourne I spoke about Project MAOL (Macmillan Ancestry On Line) and a number of people were interested in submitting their Family History to the Clan Macmillan Centre The following may be helpful For simplicity I am making this a circu1ar letter rather thlm write individually I trust you will not mind me doing so Any opinions are mine and are not necessarily those of the Clan Centres Trustees PROJECT MAOL Project MAOL was a proposal which started a few yeatS ago with the aim of getting all Macmillan ancestors on to the Clans computer Graeme McKenzie is piloting the work At this time it probably is fair to say that most of the work to date has been preliminary work and the entty of data on clan people has only really just been started The project started about five years ago but it was only about April 1997 that the Clan Centre was able to afford a modem computer with the capability to tackle the task The money to do this has come from Clan Members contributions over recent years The project will never be ftnished because family history is such a dynamic thing Over time the data collected will be invaluable in helping C lan Members compile their own family trees and although there may need to be some monetary charge to provide this information any monies received will go towards extending the information being gathered There is already a large number of family tree submissions by Clan Members in the Clan Centres Library These have accumulated over many years and wilt be transferred on to the computer as time allows All work is being done on an honorary basis and eventually more helpers will be needed to assist with computer data entry By making use of the Internet it will be possible for helpers from all around the world to progress this project much faster than Graeme is able to do in his very limited spare time Readers should apPTe(iate that Graeme also does many other things on an honorary basis for the Clan Centre

GENEALOGYSOFrWARE

There has also been problems in deciding what software to use Ideally what is reqwred is a readily available program for clan members internati01lally Also ideally it should be a low cost user friendly computer program that clan members can use on a modest computer to enter data on the known history of their family tree and be able to print it out on whatever type of printer they might have One feature of the program is to be able to merge data from files created by other close family members who wish to share their information and it is also necessary to be able to split data when sending data to other family members since normally they will only be interested in family histol) that relates to their direct family line A further desirable feature is to bave a sophisticated index and sorting system so that a given individual can be easily found particularly where the data on the selected person in incomplete The ideal program ought to be able to read files created by other computer genealogy programs

This ideal program also needs to have the capability to handle the Clan Centres needs wruch are somewhat more complex The Centre s files will (eventually) be very large as they will be the sum of all the members files Additionally the Clan Centre must be able to distinguish between people who bear the same name and who perbaps were born in the same place at approximately the same rime Macmillan families often replicated first names not only in the next generation (child named after a father) but often repeated a first name with the next child who was born after a child had died It is essential the Clan Centre program can read data produced by popular programs other than the program selected for its own use

There are a number of other software problems to be overcome ror software to meet the needs of the Clan Centre The position is that a genealogy computer program has been selected from the many available and it is believed it is the best compromise between the likely needs of Members and the Clan Centre The program that has been selected is known as F AMIL Y TREE M AKER (FfM) This program lacks some desirable features for the Clan Centres needs but it is boped to eventuaJly obtaiu some utili ty programs that will do the things the program cannot do at present It is expected that nearly all clan members will find it satisfies th eir needs

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ABOUT FAMILY TREE MAKER

This program is produced by Broderbund Software Banner Blue Division PO Box 6J25 Novato CA 9494g 6123 USA Their Technical Support Section is at Phone 001 1-1-415-510-794-6850 Fax 00 11-1-415-382-4419 E-Mail Broderbundcom

The Australian agent was (and probably still is) GampV Electronics 71 Drumalbyn Road Bellevue Hill NSW (PO Box 602 Woollahra 2025) Contact was Mr George Sherman phone 93620043

In Australia the program can nonnaJly be obtained retail through Harvey Nonnan stores at a cost of about $80 to S 150 depending on which issue of the program is purchased

There bas been over the past five years at least three versions of this program oommercially available Version 10 I followed by Version 34 and recently released in USA Version 40a which is not yet available in Australia Earlier issues of each version had a DOS based program on floppies alternatively there was a Windows issue or a deluxe issue which had a large data base of USA births death census marriage and other data The latest version runs under Windows 95 and comes on two CDs The Miter imported direct from Broderbund at about $A5500 The parcel took about a week to arrive With the program CDs there was an excellent handbook and there was a set of floppies which the writer found were useless without the CDs Some of the USA information is on the CDs Much more similar information is available in a library of about twenty CDs supplied by Broderbund at SUSA 9900 each

The FTM program is easy to install and use It requires at least I megabyte ofhard-disk space and ideally needs about 16 f11Csabyte of Ram The data files the user creates enable photographs of people to be scanned in and voices recorded however the files will become very targe but thee hard disk space can be limited by having a number of fiJes for a given family tree and storing off-line those not in use The data files can have any Dumber of people and the writerS master file has about 8500 people and occupies about 35 megabyte of space without any photo or voice information The prognun enables the file to be compressed and my data easily fits a 35 inch floppy in compressed fonnat The program will produce a variety of GEDCOM files from your own data file and these are supposed to be suitable to read into other popular genealogy programs This feature has not yet been tested by tbe writer Also GEDCOM files from other programs can be read into FTM Again this has not yet been tested and if the reader is using the latest version of Personal Ancestral File (produced by the Latter Day Saints) or some other current genealogy program then I would like you to contact me so f can arrange to test this feature

The FTM program allows splits and merges it also enables many charts to be printed rapidly (in black or in colour ifyour printer can handle colours) Charts include Ancestral Descendant and Outline Charts with a wide variety of choice in the infonnarion they contain As the writer uses only A4 paper some charts are limited to showing only a oouple of gent1alions but with a plotter much larger charts could be produced You can produce special reports and export them to programs like WORD You can also cut and paste text from any wordshyprocessor to FTM The FTM program w111 produce a booklet of your family tree complete with an index and table of contents Its built in word-processor is not very powerful but is satisfactory Version 40a will read in data from earlier versions and although it is nor bacl-wardty compatible you can create a GEDCOM file which can be read into the earlier versions

SUBMlSSIONS TO THE CLAN CENTRE

If you wish to submit your Family Hb10ry send it direct to Graeme McKen7ie at Clan Macmillan Center Fiolaystone Langbank PAI4 6TJ Scotland The phonefax number is 0011 -44-1475-540713 and the E-Mail address is Macmillan_centrecompuservecom

Paper copies of your family tree ought to be included in your mailing and if you wish to send 35 inch floppies of the da1a files from your genealogy program please ensure all disks are labelled and please prepare a written description ofwhat files are on each disk and detail the program used to produce them with the version number

HELP

If you want mOTe information please contact either myself or Graeme and we shall do our best to assist you

DONATIONS

rf you wish to support the work of Project MAOL send your donations direct to the Clan Centre or to the Australian Clan Macmillan Society

Best wishes

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appropriate legal authority to receive invest and disburse funds in accord with a charter setting forth the purposes and limitations which are to govern the Trustees in the stewardship of assets of the Foundation

The Community of the Tonsured Servant is not an Order of Chivalry but rather a company of companions patterned after the Cellic Rel igious Community of which Gillchrist was a member lis regalia is therefore ecclesiastical The Official Regalia consists of three elements the Medallion the Badge and the red Sash The Medallion is derived from the back of the monumental MacMillan Cross at Kilmory Knap It is an equilateral cross gold and engraved with an irregular Celtic knot design Both men and women alike wear it with formal attire suspended from the neck by a one inch red ribbon or from a short red ribbon on the left breast pocket The Badge of Honor is adapted from a design which incorporates a St Andrews Cross It has rays emanating from between the arms of the cross to the four paints of the Compass The Cross is argent (silver) and is surmounted by a MacMillan belted crest or (Gold) with a background of gules (red) The belt is inscribed with the Clan motto - miseris succerrure disco - I learn to the show mercy to the unfortunate The badge is worn by men on the left breast pocket of the doublet and beneath any military or civil decorations Ladies wear their badges at a comparable place on their gowns or else on the sash

The Sash of 4(gules) ribbon is approximately 6 long depending on the height of the wearer While most such sashes are worn over the right shoulder and joined at the left hip ours is placed deacon-wise over the left shoulder and joined with a rosette on the right hip A clan crest or Celtic pin is attached to the rosette from which a gold tassle is suspended Ladies may wear their sash over their gowns but under a tartan sash if such is worn Men wear their sashes at formal events under a doublet and over the shirt

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1 COMPANIONS eKo$cto- Officers of Clan MacMillan 2 COMPANIONS r~ - the contributors of $US500 (or $US250 for their

spouses) 3 COMPANIONS ~w~- persons who have serviced with distinction

either the Scottish Heritage or Clan MacMillan

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LETIIlR FR(tI CIAN cmEF Dear June

Weve just arrived home after a mos t enjoyable j ourney round the wor ld We have so many people to thank for it that it would be a tremendous hel- if you could circulate our thanks in your newsletter if it is not t oo late

We bOth enjoyed the party on 2 November enormously The ESU was a very nice place to have it and the room turned out to be just the right size for the job The food was delicious and we seemed to receive a constant supply of drinkS of all kinds mainly I suspect furnished by Harry Im afraid I didnt manage to get talking to everybody - probably because I spent so much time with old friends But it was nice to meet some new ones specially from among the younger generation

It was especial ly good of the non-MacMillans to come along and pipe and dance for us - inspired no doubt by Myrna I ought to have taken particulars of the dance they produced in honour of the occasion

Ive not yet had a chance to star t pl aying those CDs - a hugely generous pLesent - but lam very much looking forward to settling down to them Theyll not only be good listening in themselves but will remind us both of a really enjoyable family occasion Jane loves her stole too and thanks everybody very much for it

It s very nice to think that theres now an Australian member of the Community of the Tonsured Servant - though I hasten to add that its in recogshynition of past services and brings no obligations for the future I do feel that one thing we ought to be doi ng is encouragi ng younger kinsmen and women to establish links with others round the world who share their heritage For our part we welcome people here and are delighted to act as a base for youngsters coming here for the first t ime

Please give very best wishes to Max and the rest of your fami ly It was very nice to see them there in such strength

Yours ever

From left Russell Harrison( Sydney) Libby McMillan(President) June Senior Our Clan Chief George MacMillan of MacMillan and Knap and his wife Jane

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lHANK YOU TO fID4

Our President Libby McMillan has written an excellent report on our Clan gathering on 2nd November when we welcomed Clan Chief George and his wife Jane to Melbourne It was a wonderfully happy occasion and members who were unable to attend will enjoy readi ng about the event lam sure The Committee would like to thank all members who made a special donation We presented Jane with a lovely white stole hand knitted with Tasmanian merino wool and to George we presented four CDs featuring ~ustralian artists and music Your donations have also allowed us to give A$40S00 to the Clan Centre at Finlaystone and this will be forwarded with our annual donation A$28000 making a total of A$68500 for 1997 As well as a big thankyou to all our members for their generous donation I would like to thank the StAndrews(Mordialloc) Scottish Country Dance Group for their donation I received a letter from their Secretary Margaret Folley who wrote Thank you for the opportunity for our Group to dance at your Clan Gathering We enjoyed the afternoon and appreciated the friendliness shown to us by your group After hearing of the work being done by your clan to set up a Clan Research Centre our group would like to make a donation of $5000 towards your Centre Thank you to President Keith Smith Margarat and the Dancers of the group

SOCIElY FEES NOW lXlE

As from Octobersubscription of $1000 is due for 19971998 It would be appreciated if this amount could be forwarded to Mrs J Senior Treasurer at 41 Lincoln Ave Glen Waverley Vic 3150

~ big welcome to Mr amp Mrs Raymond Bell 17 Burke Rd Lalor Park Seven Hills NSW Mrs Margaret Peachey 29 Erslcine CresWheelers Hill Vic 3150 and Ian MD~illan 418 Duke St St Kilda Vic 3182 Margaret and Ian both attended our gathering and we were very happy to meet them

CIAN NEWSLETIERS Thank you to the Clans who send us their Newsletters These are read with interest May we extend Seasons Greetings to all our friends in other Clans

ltXMm EVEmS Berwick Gathering mid-February 1998 Geelong Gathering mid-March 1998 Ringwood Gathering 29 March 1998

~ group of our members at the gathering enjoy time to become acquainted Page 9

If lmClaimed please return to CLlN ~LAN SOCIETY (IIJSTRALIA) 41 LiOCJJln Ave Glen waverley vic3150

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We hope that all members families and friends who came to the Gathering of the Clan MacMillan Society of Australia on the 2 November 1997 enjoyed themselves It was a very special occasion to welcome the Chief of the Clan George MacMi llan of MacMillan and Knap and his wife Jane

The Gathering was held at the United Kingdom Settlers Association in South Yarra Victoria The program enabled plenty of time for people to meet and talk to George and Jane and to everyone who had come to the Gathering There were approximately 100 people present with apologies from members who were unable to attend Donald Macmillan Foundation President of the Clan MacMillan Society of Australia was present as was Russell Harrison from Sydney who is the current Australian and New Zealand representati ve on the Clan Centre Committee There were a number of people from country Victoria and the McMillan family from South Australia who are regulars at our AGM each year made a special trip across

When George and Jane arrived they were piped in by Len Tresize and accompanied by the Chief of the Council of Clans The Clan Society made a formal presentation on behalf of the members George suggested that each family group should introduce themselves so that others could hear who was there and so make ccnnections with each other This resulted in some people making connections with others from within their family tree whom they had not met before

June Senior who is the Societys current Treasurer and Editor and is also a former President of the Clan MacMillan Society of Australia was presented with an award by the Chief of the Clan June was made a Companion of the Community of the Tonsured Servant honoris causa for distinguished service to the Clan MacMillan Society of Australia The presenting of this award was a great honor for June her husband Max and her three daughters and their families who were all present We were all proud of June and again pass on our ccngratulations to her and our appreciation for the work that she has undertaken over the years and is continuing to undertake on beha~ of us all in the Society

The Committee through one of the members Myrna Robinson organised some displays of Scottish Country Dancing by St Andrews Mordialloc Scottish Country Dance Group and also some Highland dancing by Tracy Watson and Michelle Stokes George and Jane enjoyed this segment and the dancing added an additional atmosphere of celebration to this very special occasion

We were pleased to welcome many other Clan Societies ~ Robert Johnstone and his wife Marion Chief of the Council of Clans

Commissioner of the Clan Johnstone ~ Joe Mortan President of Clan Douglas ~ Max MacAlister President of the Clan MacAlister ~ Olive McLennan Secretary of the Clan MacLennan ~ John MacRae President of the Clan MacRae )- Don Moore Commissioner of Victoria of the MacKenzie Clan ~ Olive Moore Secretary of the MacKenzie Clan ~ Robert Mair and John Cornall Reilly President and Secretary of the Clan Mar)

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gt Brian Morrison and Norma Morrison President amp Secretary of the Clan Morrison gt Barbara Morrison Secretary of the Council of Clans and also with Howard

Morrison - Committee members of the Clan Morrison gt Mairi Mcintosh Scottish Gaelic Society of Victoria

We received formal apologies andlor greetings from the following Clan Societies gt Dr Ian Cameron from the Clan Cameron and High Commissioner for Lochiel in

Australia and his wife Beth gt Ian McDougall (President of the Clan McDougall) and his wife Joan who send

their greetings gt Beth Bell Clan McNicholl (also a member of the Clan MacMillan Society) gt Ronald and Lesley Robb President and Secretary of the MacFarlane Clan gt Clan Fraser gt Don MacMillan from the Clan MacMillan Society of America

As President I would like to express my appreciation and the appreciation of George and Jane to all those involved in the organisation of the Gathering and also to those who attended George and Jane have written and thanked us for our gifts and also for the fYeat parly w(th rnltNI1Y rnemorable-~ The Clan Societys Committee members worked hard in the preparation for the day - thanks to all Committee members Also we were grateful to the United Kingdom Settlers Association for the venue and their active involvement and participation

There were some MacMilians and Sept members present at the Gathering who were not actual members of the Society but who have now joined As always we are looking for new members and when the Committee discusses membership issues we are aware that one of the main reasons why people might choose to join is to increase their access to genealogical information and contacts

I recently opened my email to receive a message from a person in Mt Gambier who had come across my name through searching the internet She had started at a Web site about bagpipes and moved on from there I have returned her email message She told me that her family came from Corpach out of Fort William Also I was recently contacted by another McMillan who told me that her family came from County Derry The internet is becoming a great source of information and contacts as is email communication - enabling us to be in touch so easily across the world and so quickly If you are connected to email Graeme Mackenzie from the Clan Centre has sent me a list of all the email addresses that he has of Clan members around the world The list is not long - but perhaps we can add to it for him if you send me your email addresses This would also enable the Society to keep a listing of emaH contacts for members in Australia My address is

libbymcmozemail comau

We- wal-~ 1997 CI4 C opeetaU yecw wherv Geor~ ~ JIM1-e ~ to- OW ~~~ whervJfMb S~ WCl4

CWJeMded- w(th the Compcvruov 1umorf4-~ by the Chpoundef of the cLIMv A chr-i$~etpp~ the Committee--w~yoev cUI wtelty ~~Chr-i$~~ C happy YpoundW yecw

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C~y of ~ T~ed SeflCUIt A C~y of Honor ~wttJ~C~1-fcufalant F~Lltmlt

]IMUJSetIioY - COMPANION horzQriv~ an award presented to persons who have serviced with distinction either the Scottish Heritage or Clan MacMillan

The Tonsured Servant after whom the Community of the Tonsured Servant is named was a married Celtic monk of a Culdee monastery at Old Sprynie near Elgin in Moray Scotland His Gaelic Baptismal name was Gillchrist in English SelVant of Christ Celtic monks wore the Tonsure of St John in contrast to the form known as the Tonsure of Saint Peter introduced to the British Isles in the seventh century by the Benedictine monks led by St Augustine of Canterbury Gillchrist lived in later times of turbulent change when usages of the Roman Church were being imposed upon the Scottish Church by the descendents of Queen Margaret canonized as middota saint for her loyalty to Rome Gillchrist held to the old ways and earned for himself the nickname of Gillamaol the Tonsured SelVant as a consequence of his continued use of the proscribed Celtic hairstyle He was nicknamed Molini in Latin a name then Anglicized as Millan His father Cormac the last Celtic Abbot of Dunkeld converted to the Roman Church and was appointed as the first Catholic Bishop of Dunkeld Gillchrist evidently refused to follow his fathers example and was banished to Lochaber There are references to him to be found in the Latin notes in the margins of an eleventh century manuscript of the Book of Deer now in the Cambridge University Library Gillchrist had a son Malcolm first to adopt the surname MacMillan or Son of Millan From Gillchrist and this son Clan MacMillan is descended The Community of the Tonsured Servant seeks to honor the rich heritage bequeathed to the Clan and its members by them

The Clan MacMillan is a not-far-profit educational and charitable trust founded to support the Clan Centre and a Museum at Finlaystone the Scottish estate of the Macmillan Clan Chief and to provide funds for various charitable and educational ventures undertaken in the Spirit of the motto of the Clan and its Chief - miseris succurrere disco - (I learn to show mercy to the unfortunate) Governance of the Foundation is to be exercised by trustees and officers representative of MacMillan Clan Societies and branches around the world and elected by their membership At present the Foundation is being administered by the Chapter of The Community of the Tonsured Servant When the incorporation of the Chapter has been completed it is intended that the Community of the Tonsured Servant will be a subsidiary to the Foundation serving primarily as the fund raising and educational instrumentality for the Foundation The Community is the fellowship of the Companions of Honor patterned after a Celtic Religious Order to which Gillchrist belonged he being the progenitor of Clan MacMillan and the source of its name The Foundation will be an entity established under

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Russel l Harrison has Kindly sent me the following information for members interested in compiling their Family History We are very appreciative of Russell s help

CLAN MACMIL(AN

From Russell Harrison Phone 00 11-61-2-9804-8275 Fax 001 H i 1-2-9804-8276 E-Mail lremhmatrdcomau Mobde 0414-754087 Date 09-11-1997 Address PO Box 50 WeSt Ryde or 44 Glenayr Ave West Ryde NSW 2114 Australia

Dear Clan Member

PROJECT MAOL INTRODUCTION At the recent Clan Gathering in Melbourne I spoke about Project MAOL (Macmillan Ancestry On Line) and a number of people were interested in submitting their Family History to the Clan Macmillan Centre The following may be helpful For simplicity I am making this a circu1ar letter rather thlm write individually I trust you will not mind me doing so Any opinions are mine and are not necessarily those of the Clan Centres Trustees PROJECT MAOL Project MAOL was a proposal which started a few yeatS ago with the aim of getting all Macmillan ancestors on to the Clans computer Graeme McKenzie is piloting the work At this time it probably is fair to say that most of the work to date has been preliminary work and the entty of data on clan people has only really just been started The project started about five years ago but it was only about April 1997 that the Clan Centre was able to afford a modem computer with the capability to tackle the task The money to do this has come from Clan Members contributions over recent years The project will never be ftnished because family history is such a dynamic thing Over time the data collected will be invaluable in helping C lan Members compile their own family trees and although there may need to be some monetary charge to provide this information any monies received will go towards extending the information being gathered There is already a large number of family tree submissions by Clan Members in the Clan Centres Library These have accumulated over many years and wilt be transferred on to the computer as time allows All work is being done on an honorary basis and eventually more helpers will be needed to assist with computer data entry By making use of the Internet it will be possible for helpers from all around the world to progress this project much faster than Graeme is able to do in his very limited spare time Readers should apPTe(iate that Graeme also does many other things on an honorary basis for the Clan Centre

GENEALOGYSOFrWARE

There has also been problems in deciding what software to use Ideally what is reqwred is a readily available program for clan members internati01lally Also ideally it should be a low cost user friendly computer program that clan members can use on a modest computer to enter data on the known history of their family tree and be able to print it out on whatever type of printer they might have One feature of the program is to be able to merge data from files created by other close family members who wish to share their information and it is also necessary to be able to split data when sending data to other family members since normally they will only be interested in family histol) that relates to their direct family line A further desirable feature is to bave a sophisticated index and sorting system so that a given individual can be easily found particularly where the data on the selected person in incomplete The ideal program ought to be able to read files created by other computer genealogy programs

This ideal program also needs to have the capability to handle the Clan Centres needs wruch are somewhat more complex The Centre s files will (eventually) be very large as they will be the sum of all the members files Additionally the Clan Centre must be able to distinguish between people who bear the same name and who perbaps were born in the same place at approximately the same rime Macmillan families often replicated first names not only in the next generation (child named after a father) but often repeated a first name with the next child who was born after a child had died It is essential the Clan Centre program can read data produced by popular programs other than the program selected for its own use

There are a number of other software problems to be overcome ror software to meet the needs of the Clan Centre The position is that a genealogy computer program has been selected from the many available and it is believed it is the best compromise between the likely needs of Members and the Clan Centre The program that has been selected is known as F AMIL Y TREE M AKER (FfM) This program lacks some desirable features for the Clan Centres needs but it is boped to eventuaJly obtaiu some utili ty programs that will do the things the program cannot do at present It is expected that nearly all clan members will find it satisfies th eir needs

Cant d ove rleafPagemiddot 5

ABOUT FAMILY TREE MAKER

This program is produced by Broderbund Software Banner Blue Division PO Box 6J25 Novato CA 9494g 6123 USA Their Technical Support Section is at Phone 001 1-1-415-510-794-6850 Fax 00 11-1-415-382-4419 E-Mail Broderbundcom

The Australian agent was (and probably still is) GampV Electronics 71 Drumalbyn Road Bellevue Hill NSW (PO Box 602 Woollahra 2025) Contact was Mr George Sherman phone 93620043

In Australia the program can nonnaJly be obtained retail through Harvey Nonnan stores at a cost of about $80 to S 150 depending on which issue of the program is purchased

There bas been over the past five years at least three versions of this program oommercially available Version 10 I followed by Version 34 and recently released in USA Version 40a which is not yet available in Australia Earlier issues of each version had a DOS based program on floppies alternatively there was a Windows issue or a deluxe issue which had a large data base of USA births death census marriage and other data The latest version runs under Windows 95 and comes on two CDs The Miter imported direct from Broderbund at about $A5500 The parcel took about a week to arrive With the program CDs there was an excellent handbook and there was a set of floppies which the writer found were useless without the CDs Some of the USA information is on the CDs Much more similar information is available in a library of about twenty CDs supplied by Broderbund at SUSA 9900 each

The FTM program is easy to install and use It requires at least I megabyte ofhard-disk space and ideally needs about 16 f11Csabyte of Ram The data files the user creates enable photographs of people to be scanned in and voices recorded however the files will become very targe but thee hard disk space can be limited by having a number of fiJes for a given family tree and storing off-line those not in use The data files can have any Dumber of people and the writerS master file has about 8500 people and occupies about 35 megabyte of space without any photo or voice information The prognun enables the file to be compressed and my data easily fits a 35 inch floppy in compressed fonnat The program will produce a variety of GEDCOM files from your own data file and these are supposed to be suitable to read into other popular genealogy programs This feature has not yet been tested by tbe writer Also GEDCOM files from other programs can be read into FTM Again this has not yet been tested and if the reader is using the latest version of Personal Ancestral File (produced by the Latter Day Saints) or some other current genealogy program then I would like you to contact me so f can arrange to test this feature

The FTM program allows splits and merges it also enables many charts to be printed rapidly (in black or in colour ifyour printer can handle colours) Charts include Ancestral Descendant and Outline Charts with a wide variety of choice in the infonnarion they contain As the writer uses only A4 paper some charts are limited to showing only a oouple of gent1alions but with a plotter much larger charts could be produced You can produce special reports and export them to programs like WORD You can also cut and paste text from any wordshyprocessor to FTM The FTM program w111 produce a booklet of your family tree complete with an index and table of contents Its built in word-processor is not very powerful but is satisfactory Version 40a will read in data from earlier versions and although it is nor bacl-wardty compatible you can create a GEDCOM file which can be read into the earlier versions

SUBMlSSIONS TO THE CLAN CENTRE

If you wish to submit your Family Hb10ry send it direct to Graeme McKen7ie at Clan Macmillan Center Fiolaystone Langbank PAI4 6TJ Scotland The phonefax number is 0011 -44-1475-540713 and the E-Mail address is Macmillan_centrecompuservecom

Paper copies of your family tree ought to be included in your mailing and if you wish to send 35 inch floppies of the da1a files from your genealogy program please ensure all disks are labelled and please prepare a written description ofwhat files are on each disk and detail the program used to produce them with the version number

HELP

If you want mOTe information please contact either myself or Graeme and we shall do our best to assist you

DONATIONS

rf you wish to support the work of Project MAOL send your donations direct to the Clan Centre or to the Australian Clan Macmillan Society

Best wishes

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appropriate legal authority to receive invest and disburse funds in accord with a charter setting forth the purposes and limitations which are to govern the Trustees in the stewardship of assets of the Foundation

The Community of the Tonsured Servant is not an Order of Chivalry but rather a company of companions patterned after the Cellic Rel igious Community of which Gillchrist was a member lis regalia is therefore ecclesiastical The Official Regalia consists of three elements the Medallion the Badge and the red Sash The Medallion is derived from the back of the monumental MacMillan Cross at Kilmory Knap It is an equilateral cross gold and engraved with an irregular Celtic knot design Both men and women alike wear it with formal attire suspended from the neck by a one inch red ribbon or from a short red ribbon on the left breast pocket The Badge of Honor is adapted from a design which incorporates a St Andrews Cross It has rays emanating from between the arms of the cross to the four paints of the Compass The Cross is argent (silver) and is surmounted by a MacMillan belted crest or (Gold) with a background of gules (red) The belt is inscribed with the Clan motto - miseris succerrure disco - I learn to the show mercy to the unfortunate The badge is worn by men on the left breast pocket of the doublet and beneath any military or civil decorations Ladies wear their badges at a comparable place on their gowns or else on the sash

The Sash of 4(gules) ribbon is approximately 6 long depending on the height of the wearer While most such sashes are worn over the right shoulder and joined at the left hip ours is placed deacon-wise over the left shoulder and joined with a rosette on the right hip A clan crest or Celtic pin is attached to the rosette from which a gold tassle is suspended Ladies may wear their sash over their gowns but under a tartan sash if such is worn Men wear their sashes at formal events under a doublet and over the shirt

TO euroltV Chr~CltNtd ow- e~hboun

TO leltwCOlaquoccoy the ~ TO wppOYt ow- chltef CltNtd ow-C~

TO ~ifPlide ow- he-~if

1 COMPANIONS eKo$cto- Officers of Clan MacMillan 2 COMPANIONS r~ - the contributors of $US500 (or $US250 for their

spouses) 3 COMPANIONS ~w~- persons who have serviced with distinction

either the Scottish Heritage or Clan MacMillan

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LETIIlR FR(tI CIAN cmEF Dear June

Weve just arrived home after a mos t enjoyable j ourney round the wor ld We have so many people to thank for it that it would be a tremendous hel- if you could circulate our thanks in your newsletter if it is not t oo late

We bOth enjoyed the party on 2 November enormously The ESU was a very nice place to have it and the room turned out to be just the right size for the job The food was delicious and we seemed to receive a constant supply of drinkS of all kinds mainly I suspect furnished by Harry Im afraid I didnt manage to get talking to everybody - probably because I spent so much time with old friends But it was nice to meet some new ones specially from among the younger generation

It was especial ly good of the non-MacMillans to come along and pipe and dance for us - inspired no doubt by Myrna I ought to have taken particulars of the dance they produced in honour of the occasion

Ive not yet had a chance to star t pl aying those CDs - a hugely generous pLesent - but lam very much looking forward to settling down to them Theyll not only be good listening in themselves but will remind us both of a really enjoyable family occasion Jane loves her stole too and thanks everybody very much for it

It s very nice to think that theres now an Australian member of the Community of the Tonsured Servant - though I hasten to add that its in recogshynition of past services and brings no obligations for the future I do feel that one thing we ought to be doi ng is encouragi ng younger kinsmen and women to establish links with others round the world who share their heritage For our part we welcome people here and are delighted to act as a base for youngsters coming here for the first t ime

Please give very best wishes to Max and the rest of your fami ly It was very nice to see them there in such strength

Yours ever

From left Russell Harrison( Sydney) Libby McMillan(President) June Senior Our Clan Chief George MacMillan of MacMillan and Knap and his wife Jane

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lHANK YOU TO fID4

Our President Libby McMillan has written an excellent report on our Clan gathering on 2nd November when we welcomed Clan Chief George and his wife Jane to Melbourne It was a wonderfully happy occasion and members who were unable to attend will enjoy readi ng about the event lam sure The Committee would like to thank all members who made a special donation We presented Jane with a lovely white stole hand knitted with Tasmanian merino wool and to George we presented four CDs featuring ~ustralian artists and music Your donations have also allowed us to give A$40S00 to the Clan Centre at Finlaystone and this will be forwarded with our annual donation A$28000 making a total of A$68500 for 1997 As well as a big thankyou to all our members for their generous donation I would like to thank the StAndrews(Mordialloc) Scottish Country Dance Group for their donation I received a letter from their Secretary Margaret Folley who wrote Thank you for the opportunity for our Group to dance at your Clan Gathering We enjoyed the afternoon and appreciated the friendliness shown to us by your group After hearing of the work being done by your clan to set up a Clan Research Centre our group would like to make a donation of $5000 towards your Centre Thank you to President Keith Smith Margarat and the Dancers of the group

SOCIElY FEES NOW lXlE

As from Octobersubscription of $1000 is due for 19971998 It would be appreciated if this amount could be forwarded to Mrs J Senior Treasurer at 41 Lincoln Ave Glen Waverley Vic 3150

~ big welcome to Mr amp Mrs Raymond Bell 17 Burke Rd Lalor Park Seven Hills NSW Mrs Margaret Peachey 29 Erslcine CresWheelers Hill Vic 3150 and Ian MD~illan 418 Duke St St Kilda Vic 3182 Margaret and Ian both attended our gathering and we were very happy to meet them

CIAN NEWSLETIERS Thank you to the Clans who send us their Newsletters These are read with interest May we extend Seasons Greetings to all our friends in other Clans

ltXMm EVEmS Berwick Gathering mid-February 1998 Geelong Gathering mid-March 1998 Ringwood Gathering 29 March 1998

~ group of our members at the gathering enjoy time to become acquainted Page 9

If lmClaimed please return to CLlN ~LAN SOCIETY (IIJSTRALIA) 41 LiOCJJln Ave Glen waverley vic3150

MCMILLAN HOLIDAY VILLAGE

Telephone 051 ) 56 nBJ 10 Box 66 Melun g Vicloti~ 3904

Telephone (03) 817 SISI Fax (03) 811596

JIiUW of $cotkJ I NEST SCOnlSH PRODUCTS

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bull DANCERS ACCESSORIES JEWEllRY

bull HIRE SERVICE SCOITISH CRAFTS

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bull ~l1S bull F1PER FOR All f UNCnONS

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Page 3: AUSTRALIA WELCOMES CLAN CHIEFhome.vicnet.net.au/~mcmillan/nl42.pdf · Phone:9543 5429 Treas/ Editor June Senior 41 L:ino::lln Ave,

gt Brian Morrison and Norma Morrison President amp Secretary of the Clan Morrison gt Barbara Morrison Secretary of the Council of Clans and also with Howard

Morrison - Committee members of the Clan Morrison gt Mairi Mcintosh Scottish Gaelic Society of Victoria

We received formal apologies andlor greetings from the following Clan Societies gt Dr Ian Cameron from the Clan Cameron and High Commissioner for Lochiel in

Australia and his wife Beth gt Ian McDougall (President of the Clan McDougall) and his wife Joan who send

their greetings gt Beth Bell Clan McNicholl (also a member of the Clan MacMillan Society) gt Ronald and Lesley Robb President and Secretary of the MacFarlane Clan gt Clan Fraser gt Don MacMillan from the Clan MacMillan Society of America

As President I would like to express my appreciation and the appreciation of George and Jane to all those involved in the organisation of the Gathering and also to those who attended George and Jane have written and thanked us for our gifts and also for the fYeat parly w(th rnltNI1Y rnemorable-~ The Clan Societys Committee members worked hard in the preparation for the day - thanks to all Committee members Also we were grateful to the United Kingdom Settlers Association for the venue and their active involvement and participation

There were some MacMilians and Sept members present at the Gathering who were not actual members of the Society but who have now joined As always we are looking for new members and when the Committee discusses membership issues we are aware that one of the main reasons why people might choose to join is to increase their access to genealogical information and contacts

I recently opened my email to receive a message from a person in Mt Gambier who had come across my name through searching the internet She had started at a Web site about bagpipes and moved on from there I have returned her email message She told me that her family came from Corpach out of Fort William Also I was recently contacted by another McMillan who told me that her family came from County Derry The internet is becoming a great source of information and contacts as is email communication - enabling us to be in touch so easily across the world and so quickly If you are connected to email Graeme Mackenzie from the Clan Centre has sent me a list of all the email addresses that he has of Clan members around the world The list is not long - but perhaps we can add to it for him if you send me your email addresses This would also enable the Society to keep a listing of emaH contacts for members in Australia My address is

libbymcmozemail comau

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CWJeMded- w(th the Compcvruov 1umorf4-~ by the Chpoundef of the cLIMv A chr-i$~etpp~ the Committee--w~yoev cUI wtelty ~~Chr-i$~~ C happy YpoundW yecw

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C~y of ~ T~ed SeflCUIt A C~y of Honor ~wttJ~C~1-fcufalant F~Lltmlt

]IMUJSetIioY - COMPANION horzQriv~ an award presented to persons who have serviced with distinction either the Scottish Heritage or Clan MacMillan

The Tonsured Servant after whom the Community of the Tonsured Servant is named was a married Celtic monk of a Culdee monastery at Old Sprynie near Elgin in Moray Scotland His Gaelic Baptismal name was Gillchrist in English SelVant of Christ Celtic monks wore the Tonsure of St John in contrast to the form known as the Tonsure of Saint Peter introduced to the British Isles in the seventh century by the Benedictine monks led by St Augustine of Canterbury Gillchrist lived in later times of turbulent change when usages of the Roman Church were being imposed upon the Scottish Church by the descendents of Queen Margaret canonized as middota saint for her loyalty to Rome Gillchrist held to the old ways and earned for himself the nickname of Gillamaol the Tonsured SelVant as a consequence of his continued use of the proscribed Celtic hairstyle He was nicknamed Molini in Latin a name then Anglicized as Millan His father Cormac the last Celtic Abbot of Dunkeld converted to the Roman Church and was appointed as the first Catholic Bishop of Dunkeld Gillchrist evidently refused to follow his fathers example and was banished to Lochaber There are references to him to be found in the Latin notes in the margins of an eleventh century manuscript of the Book of Deer now in the Cambridge University Library Gillchrist had a son Malcolm first to adopt the surname MacMillan or Son of Millan From Gillchrist and this son Clan MacMillan is descended The Community of the Tonsured Servant seeks to honor the rich heritage bequeathed to the Clan and its members by them

The Clan MacMillan is a not-far-profit educational and charitable trust founded to support the Clan Centre and a Museum at Finlaystone the Scottish estate of the Macmillan Clan Chief and to provide funds for various charitable and educational ventures undertaken in the Spirit of the motto of the Clan and its Chief - miseris succurrere disco - (I learn to show mercy to the unfortunate) Governance of the Foundation is to be exercised by trustees and officers representative of MacMillan Clan Societies and branches around the world and elected by their membership At present the Foundation is being administered by the Chapter of The Community of the Tonsured Servant When the incorporation of the Chapter has been completed it is intended that the Community of the Tonsured Servant will be a subsidiary to the Foundation serving primarily as the fund raising and educational instrumentality for the Foundation The Community is the fellowship of the Companions of Honor patterned after a Celtic Religious Order to which Gillchrist belonged he being the progenitor of Clan MacMillan and the source of its name The Foundation will be an entity established under

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Russel l Harrison has Kindly sent me the following information for members interested in compiling their Family History We are very appreciative of Russell s help

CLAN MACMIL(AN

From Russell Harrison Phone 00 11-61-2-9804-8275 Fax 001 H i 1-2-9804-8276 E-Mail lremhmatrdcomau Mobde 0414-754087 Date 09-11-1997 Address PO Box 50 WeSt Ryde or 44 Glenayr Ave West Ryde NSW 2114 Australia

Dear Clan Member

PROJECT MAOL INTRODUCTION At the recent Clan Gathering in Melbourne I spoke about Project MAOL (Macmillan Ancestry On Line) and a number of people were interested in submitting their Family History to the Clan Macmillan Centre The following may be helpful For simplicity I am making this a circu1ar letter rather thlm write individually I trust you will not mind me doing so Any opinions are mine and are not necessarily those of the Clan Centres Trustees PROJECT MAOL Project MAOL was a proposal which started a few yeatS ago with the aim of getting all Macmillan ancestors on to the Clans computer Graeme McKenzie is piloting the work At this time it probably is fair to say that most of the work to date has been preliminary work and the entty of data on clan people has only really just been started The project started about five years ago but it was only about April 1997 that the Clan Centre was able to afford a modem computer with the capability to tackle the task The money to do this has come from Clan Members contributions over recent years The project will never be ftnished because family history is such a dynamic thing Over time the data collected will be invaluable in helping C lan Members compile their own family trees and although there may need to be some monetary charge to provide this information any monies received will go towards extending the information being gathered There is already a large number of family tree submissions by Clan Members in the Clan Centres Library These have accumulated over many years and wilt be transferred on to the computer as time allows All work is being done on an honorary basis and eventually more helpers will be needed to assist with computer data entry By making use of the Internet it will be possible for helpers from all around the world to progress this project much faster than Graeme is able to do in his very limited spare time Readers should apPTe(iate that Graeme also does many other things on an honorary basis for the Clan Centre

GENEALOGYSOFrWARE

There has also been problems in deciding what software to use Ideally what is reqwred is a readily available program for clan members internati01lally Also ideally it should be a low cost user friendly computer program that clan members can use on a modest computer to enter data on the known history of their family tree and be able to print it out on whatever type of printer they might have One feature of the program is to be able to merge data from files created by other close family members who wish to share their information and it is also necessary to be able to split data when sending data to other family members since normally they will only be interested in family histol) that relates to their direct family line A further desirable feature is to bave a sophisticated index and sorting system so that a given individual can be easily found particularly where the data on the selected person in incomplete The ideal program ought to be able to read files created by other computer genealogy programs

This ideal program also needs to have the capability to handle the Clan Centres needs wruch are somewhat more complex The Centre s files will (eventually) be very large as they will be the sum of all the members files Additionally the Clan Centre must be able to distinguish between people who bear the same name and who perbaps were born in the same place at approximately the same rime Macmillan families often replicated first names not only in the next generation (child named after a father) but often repeated a first name with the next child who was born after a child had died It is essential the Clan Centre program can read data produced by popular programs other than the program selected for its own use

There are a number of other software problems to be overcome ror software to meet the needs of the Clan Centre The position is that a genealogy computer program has been selected from the many available and it is believed it is the best compromise between the likely needs of Members and the Clan Centre The program that has been selected is known as F AMIL Y TREE M AKER (FfM) This program lacks some desirable features for the Clan Centres needs but it is boped to eventuaJly obtaiu some utili ty programs that will do the things the program cannot do at present It is expected that nearly all clan members will find it satisfies th eir needs

Cant d ove rleafPagemiddot 5

ABOUT FAMILY TREE MAKER

This program is produced by Broderbund Software Banner Blue Division PO Box 6J25 Novato CA 9494g 6123 USA Their Technical Support Section is at Phone 001 1-1-415-510-794-6850 Fax 00 11-1-415-382-4419 E-Mail Broderbundcom

The Australian agent was (and probably still is) GampV Electronics 71 Drumalbyn Road Bellevue Hill NSW (PO Box 602 Woollahra 2025) Contact was Mr George Sherman phone 93620043

In Australia the program can nonnaJly be obtained retail through Harvey Nonnan stores at a cost of about $80 to S 150 depending on which issue of the program is purchased

There bas been over the past five years at least three versions of this program oommercially available Version 10 I followed by Version 34 and recently released in USA Version 40a which is not yet available in Australia Earlier issues of each version had a DOS based program on floppies alternatively there was a Windows issue or a deluxe issue which had a large data base of USA births death census marriage and other data The latest version runs under Windows 95 and comes on two CDs The Miter imported direct from Broderbund at about $A5500 The parcel took about a week to arrive With the program CDs there was an excellent handbook and there was a set of floppies which the writer found were useless without the CDs Some of the USA information is on the CDs Much more similar information is available in a library of about twenty CDs supplied by Broderbund at SUSA 9900 each

The FTM program is easy to install and use It requires at least I megabyte ofhard-disk space and ideally needs about 16 f11Csabyte of Ram The data files the user creates enable photographs of people to be scanned in and voices recorded however the files will become very targe but thee hard disk space can be limited by having a number of fiJes for a given family tree and storing off-line those not in use The data files can have any Dumber of people and the writerS master file has about 8500 people and occupies about 35 megabyte of space without any photo or voice information The prognun enables the file to be compressed and my data easily fits a 35 inch floppy in compressed fonnat The program will produce a variety of GEDCOM files from your own data file and these are supposed to be suitable to read into other popular genealogy programs This feature has not yet been tested by tbe writer Also GEDCOM files from other programs can be read into FTM Again this has not yet been tested and if the reader is using the latest version of Personal Ancestral File (produced by the Latter Day Saints) or some other current genealogy program then I would like you to contact me so f can arrange to test this feature

The FTM program allows splits and merges it also enables many charts to be printed rapidly (in black or in colour ifyour printer can handle colours) Charts include Ancestral Descendant and Outline Charts with a wide variety of choice in the infonnarion they contain As the writer uses only A4 paper some charts are limited to showing only a oouple of gent1alions but with a plotter much larger charts could be produced You can produce special reports and export them to programs like WORD You can also cut and paste text from any wordshyprocessor to FTM The FTM program w111 produce a booklet of your family tree complete with an index and table of contents Its built in word-processor is not very powerful but is satisfactory Version 40a will read in data from earlier versions and although it is nor bacl-wardty compatible you can create a GEDCOM file which can be read into the earlier versions

SUBMlSSIONS TO THE CLAN CENTRE

If you wish to submit your Family Hb10ry send it direct to Graeme McKen7ie at Clan Macmillan Center Fiolaystone Langbank PAI4 6TJ Scotland The phonefax number is 0011 -44-1475-540713 and the E-Mail address is Macmillan_centrecompuservecom

Paper copies of your family tree ought to be included in your mailing and if you wish to send 35 inch floppies of the da1a files from your genealogy program please ensure all disks are labelled and please prepare a written description ofwhat files are on each disk and detail the program used to produce them with the version number

HELP

If you want mOTe information please contact either myself or Graeme and we shall do our best to assist you

DONATIONS

rf you wish to support the work of Project MAOL send your donations direct to the Clan Centre or to the Australian Clan Macmillan Society

Best wishes

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appropriate legal authority to receive invest and disburse funds in accord with a charter setting forth the purposes and limitations which are to govern the Trustees in the stewardship of assets of the Foundation

The Community of the Tonsured Servant is not an Order of Chivalry but rather a company of companions patterned after the Cellic Rel igious Community of which Gillchrist was a member lis regalia is therefore ecclesiastical The Official Regalia consists of three elements the Medallion the Badge and the red Sash The Medallion is derived from the back of the monumental MacMillan Cross at Kilmory Knap It is an equilateral cross gold and engraved with an irregular Celtic knot design Both men and women alike wear it with formal attire suspended from the neck by a one inch red ribbon or from a short red ribbon on the left breast pocket The Badge of Honor is adapted from a design which incorporates a St Andrews Cross It has rays emanating from between the arms of the cross to the four paints of the Compass The Cross is argent (silver) and is surmounted by a MacMillan belted crest or (Gold) with a background of gules (red) The belt is inscribed with the Clan motto - miseris succerrure disco - I learn to the show mercy to the unfortunate The badge is worn by men on the left breast pocket of the doublet and beneath any military or civil decorations Ladies wear their badges at a comparable place on their gowns or else on the sash

The Sash of 4(gules) ribbon is approximately 6 long depending on the height of the wearer While most such sashes are worn over the right shoulder and joined at the left hip ours is placed deacon-wise over the left shoulder and joined with a rosette on the right hip A clan crest or Celtic pin is attached to the rosette from which a gold tassle is suspended Ladies may wear their sash over their gowns but under a tartan sash if such is worn Men wear their sashes at formal events under a doublet and over the shirt

TO euroltV Chr~CltNtd ow- e~hboun

TO leltwCOlaquoccoy the ~ TO wppOYt ow- chltef CltNtd ow-C~

TO ~ifPlide ow- he-~if

1 COMPANIONS eKo$cto- Officers of Clan MacMillan 2 COMPANIONS r~ - the contributors of $US500 (or $US250 for their

spouses) 3 COMPANIONS ~w~- persons who have serviced with distinction

either the Scottish Heritage or Clan MacMillan

Page 7

LETIIlR FR(tI CIAN cmEF Dear June

Weve just arrived home after a mos t enjoyable j ourney round the wor ld We have so many people to thank for it that it would be a tremendous hel- if you could circulate our thanks in your newsletter if it is not t oo late

We bOth enjoyed the party on 2 November enormously The ESU was a very nice place to have it and the room turned out to be just the right size for the job The food was delicious and we seemed to receive a constant supply of drinkS of all kinds mainly I suspect furnished by Harry Im afraid I didnt manage to get talking to everybody - probably because I spent so much time with old friends But it was nice to meet some new ones specially from among the younger generation

It was especial ly good of the non-MacMillans to come along and pipe and dance for us - inspired no doubt by Myrna I ought to have taken particulars of the dance they produced in honour of the occasion

Ive not yet had a chance to star t pl aying those CDs - a hugely generous pLesent - but lam very much looking forward to settling down to them Theyll not only be good listening in themselves but will remind us both of a really enjoyable family occasion Jane loves her stole too and thanks everybody very much for it

It s very nice to think that theres now an Australian member of the Community of the Tonsured Servant - though I hasten to add that its in recogshynition of past services and brings no obligations for the future I do feel that one thing we ought to be doi ng is encouragi ng younger kinsmen and women to establish links with others round the world who share their heritage For our part we welcome people here and are delighted to act as a base for youngsters coming here for the first t ime

Please give very best wishes to Max and the rest of your fami ly It was very nice to see them there in such strength

Yours ever

From left Russell Harrison( Sydney) Libby McMillan(President) June Senior Our Clan Chief George MacMillan of MacMillan and Knap and his wife Jane

Page 8

lHANK YOU TO fID4

Our President Libby McMillan has written an excellent report on our Clan gathering on 2nd November when we welcomed Clan Chief George and his wife Jane to Melbourne It was a wonderfully happy occasion and members who were unable to attend will enjoy readi ng about the event lam sure The Committee would like to thank all members who made a special donation We presented Jane with a lovely white stole hand knitted with Tasmanian merino wool and to George we presented four CDs featuring ~ustralian artists and music Your donations have also allowed us to give A$40S00 to the Clan Centre at Finlaystone and this will be forwarded with our annual donation A$28000 making a total of A$68500 for 1997 As well as a big thankyou to all our members for their generous donation I would like to thank the StAndrews(Mordialloc) Scottish Country Dance Group for their donation I received a letter from their Secretary Margaret Folley who wrote Thank you for the opportunity for our Group to dance at your Clan Gathering We enjoyed the afternoon and appreciated the friendliness shown to us by your group After hearing of the work being done by your clan to set up a Clan Research Centre our group would like to make a donation of $5000 towards your Centre Thank you to President Keith Smith Margarat and the Dancers of the group

SOCIElY FEES NOW lXlE

As from Octobersubscription of $1000 is due for 19971998 It would be appreciated if this amount could be forwarded to Mrs J Senior Treasurer at 41 Lincoln Ave Glen Waverley Vic 3150

~ big welcome to Mr amp Mrs Raymond Bell 17 Burke Rd Lalor Park Seven Hills NSW Mrs Margaret Peachey 29 Erslcine CresWheelers Hill Vic 3150 and Ian MD~illan 418 Duke St St Kilda Vic 3182 Margaret and Ian both attended our gathering and we were very happy to meet them

CIAN NEWSLETIERS Thank you to the Clans who send us their Newsletters These are read with interest May we extend Seasons Greetings to all our friends in other Clans

ltXMm EVEmS Berwick Gathering mid-February 1998 Geelong Gathering mid-March 1998 Ringwood Gathering 29 March 1998

~ group of our members at the gathering enjoy time to become acquainted Page 9

If lmClaimed please return to CLlN ~LAN SOCIETY (IIJSTRALIA) 41 LiOCJJln Ave Glen waverley vic3150

MCMILLAN HOLIDAY VILLAGE

Telephone 051 ) 56 nBJ 10 Box 66 Melun g Vicloti~ 3904

Telephone (03) 817 SISI Fax (03) 811596

JIiUW of $cotkJ I NEST SCOnlSH PRODUCTS

AUTH ENTiC CLAN KILTS

bull CLAN PLAQUES PIPE aoN D EQUIP MENT

bull DANCERS ACCESSORIES JEWEllRY

bull HIRE SERVICE SCOITISH CRAFTS

bull RECORDS VIDEOS bull A~ENnc TAR TANS

bull ~l1S bull F1PER FOR All f UNCnONS

l11i ~HIT(HOA5( AOD lWYN IOUPOENE llQJ IICTOA USTA ll II T 01

Page 10

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C~y of ~ T~ed SeflCUIt A C~y of Honor ~wttJ~C~1-fcufalant F~Lltmlt

]IMUJSetIioY - COMPANION horzQriv~ an award presented to persons who have serviced with distinction either the Scottish Heritage or Clan MacMillan

The Tonsured Servant after whom the Community of the Tonsured Servant is named was a married Celtic monk of a Culdee monastery at Old Sprynie near Elgin in Moray Scotland His Gaelic Baptismal name was Gillchrist in English SelVant of Christ Celtic monks wore the Tonsure of St John in contrast to the form known as the Tonsure of Saint Peter introduced to the British Isles in the seventh century by the Benedictine monks led by St Augustine of Canterbury Gillchrist lived in later times of turbulent change when usages of the Roman Church were being imposed upon the Scottish Church by the descendents of Queen Margaret canonized as middota saint for her loyalty to Rome Gillchrist held to the old ways and earned for himself the nickname of Gillamaol the Tonsured SelVant as a consequence of his continued use of the proscribed Celtic hairstyle He was nicknamed Molini in Latin a name then Anglicized as Millan His father Cormac the last Celtic Abbot of Dunkeld converted to the Roman Church and was appointed as the first Catholic Bishop of Dunkeld Gillchrist evidently refused to follow his fathers example and was banished to Lochaber There are references to him to be found in the Latin notes in the margins of an eleventh century manuscript of the Book of Deer now in the Cambridge University Library Gillchrist had a son Malcolm first to adopt the surname MacMillan or Son of Millan From Gillchrist and this son Clan MacMillan is descended The Community of the Tonsured Servant seeks to honor the rich heritage bequeathed to the Clan and its members by them

The Clan MacMillan is a not-far-profit educational and charitable trust founded to support the Clan Centre and a Museum at Finlaystone the Scottish estate of the Macmillan Clan Chief and to provide funds for various charitable and educational ventures undertaken in the Spirit of the motto of the Clan and its Chief - miseris succurrere disco - (I learn to show mercy to the unfortunate) Governance of the Foundation is to be exercised by trustees and officers representative of MacMillan Clan Societies and branches around the world and elected by their membership At present the Foundation is being administered by the Chapter of The Community of the Tonsured Servant When the incorporation of the Chapter has been completed it is intended that the Community of the Tonsured Servant will be a subsidiary to the Foundation serving primarily as the fund raising and educational instrumentality for the Foundation The Community is the fellowship of the Companions of Honor patterned after a Celtic Religious Order to which Gillchrist belonged he being the progenitor of Clan MacMillan and the source of its name The Foundation will be an entity established under

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Russel l Harrison has Kindly sent me the following information for members interested in compiling their Family History We are very appreciative of Russell s help

CLAN MACMIL(AN

From Russell Harrison Phone 00 11-61-2-9804-8275 Fax 001 H i 1-2-9804-8276 E-Mail lremhmatrdcomau Mobde 0414-754087 Date 09-11-1997 Address PO Box 50 WeSt Ryde or 44 Glenayr Ave West Ryde NSW 2114 Australia

Dear Clan Member

PROJECT MAOL INTRODUCTION At the recent Clan Gathering in Melbourne I spoke about Project MAOL (Macmillan Ancestry On Line) and a number of people were interested in submitting their Family History to the Clan Macmillan Centre The following may be helpful For simplicity I am making this a circu1ar letter rather thlm write individually I trust you will not mind me doing so Any opinions are mine and are not necessarily those of the Clan Centres Trustees PROJECT MAOL Project MAOL was a proposal which started a few yeatS ago with the aim of getting all Macmillan ancestors on to the Clans computer Graeme McKenzie is piloting the work At this time it probably is fair to say that most of the work to date has been preliminary work and the entty of data on clan people has only really just been started The project started about five years ago but it was only about April 1997 that the Clan Centre was able to afford a modem computer with the capability to tackle the task The money to do this has come from Clan Members contributions over recent years The project will never be ftnished because family history is such a dynamic thing Over time the data collected will be invaluable in helping C lan Members compile their own family trees and although there may need to be some monetary charge to provide this information any monies received will go towards extending the information being gathered There is already a large number of family tree submissions by Clan Members in the Clan Centres Library These have accumulated over many years and wilt be transferred on to the computer as time allows All work is being done on an honorary basis and eventually more helpers will be needed to assist with computer data entry By making use of the Internet it will be possible for helpers from all around the world to progress this project much faster than Graeme is able to do in his very limited spare time Readers should apPTe(iate that Graeme also does many other things on an honorary basis for the Clan Centre

GENEALOGYSOFrWARE

There has also been problems in deciding what software to use Ideally what is reqwred is a readily available program for clan members internati01lally Also ideally it should be a low cost user friendly computer program that clan members can use on a modest computer to enter data on the known history of their family tree and be able to print it out on whatever type of printer they might have One feature of the program is to be able to merge data from files created by other close family members who wish to share their information and it is also necessary to be able to split data when sending data to other family members since normally they will only be interested in family histol) that relates to their direct family line A further desirable feature is to bave a sophisticated index and sorting system so that a given individual can be easily found particularly where the data on the selected person in incomplete The ideal program ought to be able to read files created by other computer genealogy programs

This ideal program also needs to have the capability to handle the Clan Centres needs wruch are somewhat more complex The Centre s files will (eventually) be very large as they will be the sum of all the members files Additionally the Clan Centre must be able to distinguish between people who bear the same name and who perbaps were born in the same place at approximately the same rime Macmillan families often replicated first names not only in the next generation (child named after a father) but often repeated a first name with the next child who was born after a child had died It is essential the Clan Centre program can read data produced by popular programs other than the program selected for its own use

There are a number of other software problems to be overcome ror software to meet the needs of the Clan Centre The position is that a genealogy computer program has been selected from the many available and it is believed it is the best compromise between the likely needs of Members and the Clan Centre The program that has been selected is known as F AMIL Y TREE M AKER (FfM) This program lacks some desirable features for the Clan Centres needs but it is boped to eventuaJly obtaiu some utili ty programs that will do the things the program cannot do at present It is expected that nearly all clan members will find it satisfies th eir needs

Cant d ove rleafPagemiddot 5

ABOUT FAMILY TREE MAKER

This program is produced by Broderbund Software Banner Blue Division PO Box 6J25 Novato CA 9494g 6123 USA Their Technical Support Section is at Phone 001 1-1-415-510-794-6850 Fax 00 11-1-415-382-4419 E-Mail Broderbundcom

The Australian agent was (and probably still is) GampV Electronics 71 Drumalbyn Road Bellevue Hill NSW (PO Box 602 Woollahra 2025) Contact was Mr George Sherman phone 93620043

In Australia the program can nonnaJly be obtained retail through Harvey Nonnan stores at a cost of about $80 to S 150 depending on which issue of the program is purchased

There bas been over the past five years at least three versions of this program oommercially available Version 10 I followed by Version 34 and recently released in USA Version 40a which is not yet available in Australia Earlier issues of each version had a DOS based program on floppies alternatively there was a Windows issue or a deluxe issue which had a large data base of USA births death census marriage and other data The latest version runs under Windows 95 and comes on two CDs The Miter imported direct from Broderbund at about $A5500 The parcel took about a week to arrive With the program CDs there was an excellent handbook and there was a set of floppies which the writer found were useless without the CDs Some of the USA information is on the CDs Much more similar information is available in a library of about twenty CDs supplied by Broderbund at SUSA 9900 each

The FTM program is easy to install and use It requires at least I megabyte ofhard-disk space and ideally needs about 16 f11Csabyte of Ram The data files the user creates enable photographs of people to be scanned in and voices recorded however the files will become very targe but thee hard disk space can be limited by having a number of fiJes for a given family tree and storing off-line those not in use The data files can have any Dumber of people and the writerS master file has about 8500 people and occupies about 35 megabyte of space without any photo or voice information The prognun enables the file to be compressed and my data easily fits a 35 inch floppy in compressed fonnat The program will produce a variety of GEDCOM files from your own data file and these are supposed to be suitable to read into other popular genealogy programs This feature has not yet been tested by tbe writer Also GEDCOM files from other programs can be read into FTM Again this has not yet been tested and if the reader is using the latest version of Personal Ancestral File (produced by the Latter Day Saints) or some other current genealogy program then I would like you to contact me so f can arrange to test this feature

The FTM program allows splits and merges it also enables many charts to be printed rapidly (in black or in colour ifyour printer can handle colours) Charts include Ancestral Descendant and Outline Charts with a wide variety of choice in the infonnarion they contain As the writer uses only A4 paper some charts are limited to showing only a oouple of gent1alions but with a plotter much larger charts could be produced You can produce special reports and export them to programs like WORD You can also cut and paste text from any wordshyprocessor to FTM The FTM program w111 produce a booklet of your family tree complete with an index and table of contents Its built in word-processor is not very powerful but is satisfactory Version 40a will read in data from earlier versions and although it is nor bacl-wardty compatible you can create a GEDCOM file which can be read into the earlier versions

SUBMlSSIONS TO THE CLAN CENTRE

If you wish to submit your Family Hb10ry send it direct to Graeme McKen7ie at Clan Macmillan Center Fiolaystone Langbank PAI4 6TJ Scotland The phonefax number is 0011 -44-1475-540713 and the E-Mail address is Macmillan_centrecompuservecom

Paper copies of your family tree ought to be included in your mailing and if you wish to send 35 inch floppies of the da1a files from your genealogy program please ensure all disks are labelled and please prepare a written description ofwhat files are on each disk and detail the program used to produce them with the version number

HELP

If you want mOTe information please contact either myself or Graeme and we shall do our best to assist you

DONATIONS

rf you wish to support the work of Project MAOL send your donations direct to the Clan Centre or to the Australian Clan Macmillan Society

Best wishes

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appropriate legal authority to receive invest and disburse funds in accord with a charter setting forth the purposes and limitations which are to govern the Trustees in the stewardship of assets of the Foundation

The Community of the Tonsured Servant is not an Order of Chivalry but rather a company of companions patterned after the Cellic Rel igious Community of which Gillchrist was a member lis regalia is therefore ecclesiastical The Official Regalia consists of three elements the Medallion the Badge and the red Sash The Medallion is derived from the back of the monumental MacMillan Cross at Kilmory Knap It is an equilateral cross gold and engraved with an irregular Celtic knot design Both men and women alike wear it with formal attire suspended from the neck by a one inch red ribbon or from a short red ribbon on the left breast pocket The Badge of Honor is adapted from a design which incorporates a St Andrews Cross It has rays emanating from between the arms of the cross to the four paints of the Compass The Cross is argent (silver) and is surmounted by a MacMillan belted crest or (Gold) with a background of gules (red) The belt is inscribed with the Clan motto - miseris succerrure disco - I learn to the show mercy to the unfortunate The badge is worn by men on the left breast pocket of the doublet and beneath any military or civil decorations Ladies wear their badges at a comparable place on their gowns or else on the sash

The Sash of 4(gules) ribbon is approximately 6 long depending on the height of the wearer While most such sashes are worn over the right shoulder and joined at the left hip ours is placed deacon-wise over the left shoulder and joined with a rosette on the right hip A clan crest or Celtic pin is attached to the rosette from which a gold tassle is suspended Ladies may wear their sash over their gowns but under a tartan sash if such is worn Men wear their sashes at formal events under a doublet and over the shirt

TO euroltV Chr~CltNtd ow- e~hboun

TO leltwCOlaquoccoy the ~ TO wppOYt ow- chltef CltNtd ow-C~

TO ~ifPlide ow- he-~if

1 COMPANIONS eKo$cto- Officers of Clan MacMillan 2 COMPANIONS r~ - the contributors of $US500 (or $US250 for their

spouses) 3 COMPANIONS ~w~- persons who have serviced with distinction

either the Scottish Heritage or Clan MacMillan

Page 7

LETIIlR FR(tI CIAN cmEF Dear June

Weve just arrived home after a mos t enjoyable j ourney round the wor ld We have so many people to thank for it that it would be a tremendous hel- if you could circulate our thanks in your newsletter if it is not t oo late

We bOth enjoyed the party on 2 November enormously The ESU was a very nice place to have it and the room turned out to be just the right size for the job The food was delicious and we seemed to receive a constant supply of drinkS of all kinds mainly I suspect furnished by Harry Im afraid I didnt manage to get talking to everybody - probably because I spent so much time with old friends But it was nice to meet some new ones specially from among the younger generation

It was especial ly good of the non-MacMillans to come along and pipe and dance for us - inspired no doubt by Myrna I ought to have taken particulars of the dance they produced in honour of the occasion

Ive not yet had a chance to star t pl aying those CDs - a hugely generous pLesent - but lam very much looking forward to settling down to them Theyll not only be good listening in themselves but will remind us both of a really enjoyable family occasion Jane loves her stole too and thanks everybody very much for it

It s very nice to think that theres now an Australian member of the Community of the Tonsured Servant - though I hasten to add that its in recogshynition of past services and brings no obligations for the future I do feel that one thing we ought to be doi ng is encouragi ng younger kinsmen and women to establish links with others round the world who share their heritage For our part we welcome people here and are delighted to act as a base for youngsters coming here for the first t ime

Please give very best wishes to Max and the rest of your fami ly It was very nice to see them there in such strength

Yours ever

From left Russell Harrison( Sydney) Libby McMillan(President) June Senior Our Clan Chief George MacMillan of MacMillan and Knap and his wife Jane

Page 8

lHANK YOU TO fID4

Our President Libby McMillan has written an excellent report on our Clan gathering on 2nd November when we welcomed Clan Chief George and his wife Jane to Melbourne It was a wonderfully happy occasion and members who were unable to attend will enjoy readi ng about the event lam sure The Committee would like to thank all members who made a special donation We presented Jane with a lovely white stole hand knitted with Tasmanian merino wool and to George we presented four CDs featuring ~ustralian artists and music Your donations have also allowed us to give A$40S00 to the Clan Centre at Finlaystone and this will be forwarded with our annual donation A$28000 making a total of A$68500 for 1997 As well as a big thankyou to all our members for their generous donation I would like to thank the StAndrews(Mordialloc) Scottish Country Dance Group for their donation I received a letter from their Secretary Margaret Folley who wrote Thank you for the opportunity for our Group to dance at your Clan Gathering We enjoyed the afternoon and appreciated the friendliness shown to us by your group After hearing of the work being done by your clan to set up a Clan Research Centre our group would like to make a donation of $5000 towards your Centre Thank you to President Keith Smith Margarat and the Dancers of the group

SOCIElY FEES NOW lXlE

As from Octobersubscription of $1000 is due for 19971998 It would be appreciated if this amount could be forwarded to Mrs J Senior Treasurer at 41 Lincoln Ave Glen Waverley Vic 3150

~ big welcome to Mr amp Mrs Raymond Bell 17 Burke Rd Lalor Park Seven Hills NSW Mrs Margaret Peachey 29 Erslcine CresWheelers Hill Vic 3150 and Ian MD~illan 418 Duke St St Kilda Vic 3182 Margaret and Ian both attended our gathering and we were very happy to meet them

CIAN NEWSLETIERS Thank you to the Clans who send us their Newsletters These are read with interest May we extend Seasons Greetings to all our friends in other Clans

ltXMm EVEmS Berwick Gathering mid-February 1998 Geelong Gathering mid-March 1998 Ringwood Gathering 29 March 1998

~ group of our members at the gathering enjoy time to become acquainted Page 9

If lmClaimed please return to CLlN ~LAN SOCIETY (IIJSTRALIA) 41 LiOCJJln Ave Glen waverley vic3150

MCMILLAN HOLIDAY VILLAGE

Telephone 051 ) 56 nBJ 10 Box 66 Melun g Vicloti~ 3904

Telephone (03) 817 SISI Fax (03) 811596

JIiUW of $cotkJ I NEST SCOnlSH PRODUCTS

AUTH ENTiC CLAN KILTS

bull CLAN PLAQUES PIPE aoN D EQUIP MENT

bull DANCERS ACCESSORIES JEWEllRY

bull HIRE SERVICE SCOITISH CRAFTS

bull RECORDS VIDEOS bull A~ENnc TAR TANS

bull ~l1S bull F1PER FOR All f UNCnONS

l11i ~HIT(HOA5( AOD lWYN IOUPOENE llQJ IICTOA USTA ll II T 01

Page 10

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Russel l Harrison has Kindly sent me the following information for members interested in compiling their Family History We are very appreciative of Russell s help

CLAN MACMIL(AN

From Russell Harrison Phone 00 11-61-2-9804-8275 Fax 001 H i 1-2-9804-8276 E-Mail lremhmatrdcomau Mobde 0414-754087 Date 09-11-1997 Address PO Box 50 WeSt Ryde or 44 Glenayr Ave West Ryde NSW 2114 Australia

Dear Clan Member

PROJECT MAOL INTRODUCTION At the recent Clan Gathering in Melbourne I spoke about Project MAOL (Macmillan Ancestry On Line) and a number of people were interested in submitting their Family History to the Clan Macmillan Centre The following may be helpful For simplicity I am making this a circu1ar letter rather thlm write individually I trust you will not mind me doing so Any opinions are mine and are not necessarily those of the Clan Centres Trustees PROJECT MAOL Project MAOL was a proposal which started a few yeatS ago with the aim of getting all Macmillan ancestors on to the Clans computer Graeme McKenzie is piloting the work At this time it probably is fair to say that most of the work to date has been preliminary work and the entty of data on clan people has only really just been started The project started about five years ago but it was only about April 1997 that the Clan Centre was able to afford a modem computer with the capability to tackle the task The money to do this has come from Clan Members contributions over recent years The project will never be ftnished because family history is such a dynamic thing Over time the data collected will be invaluable in helping C lan Members compile their own family trees and although there may need to be some monetary charge to provide this information any monies received will go towards extending the information being gathered There is already a large number of family tree submissions by Clan Members in the Clan Centres Library These have accumulated over many years and wilt be transferred on to the computer as time allows All work is being done on an honorary basis and eventually more helpers will be needed to assist with computer data entry By making use of the Internet it will be possible for helpers from all around the world to progress this project much faster than Graeme is able to do in his very limited spare time Readers should apPTe(iate that Graeme also does many other things on an honorary basis for the Clan Centre

GENEALOGYSOFrWARE

There has also been problems in deciding what software to use Ideally what is reqwred is a readily available program for clan members internati01lally Also ideally it should be a low cost user friendly computer program that clan members can use on a modest computer to enter data on the known history of their family tree and be able to print it out on whatever type of printer they might have One feature of the program is to be able to merge data from files created by other close family members who wish to share their information and it is also necessary to be able to split data when sending data to other family members since normally they will only be interested in family histol) that relates to their direct family line A further desirable feature is to bave a sophisticated index and sorting system so that a given individual can be easily found particularly where the data on the selected person in incomplete The ideal program ought to be able to read files created by other computer genealogy programs

This ideal program also needs to have the capability to handle the Clan Centres needs wruch are somewhat more complex The Centre s files will (eventually) be very large as they will be the sum of all the members files Additionally the Clan Centre must be able to distinguish between people who bear the same name and who perbaps were born in the same place at approximately the same rime Macmillan families often replicated first names not only in the next generation (child named after a father) but often repeated a first name with the next child who was born after a child had died It is essential the Clan Centre program can read data produced by popular programs other than the program selected for its own use

There are a number of other software problems to be overcome ror software to meet the needs of the Clan Centre The position is that a genealogy computer program has been selected from the many available and it is believed it is the best compromise between the likely needs of Members and the Clan Centre The program that has been selected is known as F AMIL Y TREE M AKER (FfM) This program lacks some desirable features for the Clan Centres needs but it is boped to eventuaJly obtaiu some utili ty programs that will do the things the program cannot do at present It is expected that nearly all clan members will find it satisfies th eir needs

Cant d ove rleafPagemiddot 5

ABOUT FAMILY TREE MAKER

This program is produced by Broderbund Software Banner Blue Division PO Box 6J25 Novato CA 9494g 6123 USA Their Technical Support Section is at Phone 001 1-1-415-510-794-6850 Fax 00 11-1-415-382-4419 E-Mail Broderbundcom

The Australian agent was (and probably still is) GampV Electronics 71 Drumalbyn Road Bellevue Hill NSW (PO Box 602 Woollahra 2025) Contact was Mr George Sherman phone 93620043

In Australia the program can nonnaJly be obtained retail through Harvey Nonnan stores at a cost of about $80 to S 150 depending on which issue of the program is purchased

There bas been over the past five years at least three versions of this program oommercially available Version 10 I followed by Version 34 and recently released in USA Version 40a which is not yet available in Australia Earlier issues of each version had a DOS based program on floppies alternatively there was a Windows issue or a deluxe issue which had a large data base of USA births death census marriage and other data The latest version runs under Windows 95 and comes on two CDs The Miter imported direct from Broderbund at about $A5500 The parcel took about a week to arrive With the program CDs there was an excellent handbook and there was a set of floppies which the writer found were useless without the CDs Some of the USA information is on the CDs Much more similar information is available in a library of about twenty CDs supplied by Broderbund at SUSA 9900 each

The FTM program is easy to install and use It requires at least I megabyte ofhard-disk space and ideally needs about 16 f11Csabyte of Ram The data files the user creates enable photographs of people to be scanned in and voices recorded however the files will become very targe but thee hard disk space can be limited by having a number of fiJes for a given family tree and storing off-line those not in use The data files can have any Dumber of people and the writerS master file has about 8500 people and occupies about 35 megabyte of space without any photo or voice information The prognun enables the file to be compressed and my data easily fits a 35 inch floppy in compressed fonnat The program will produce a variety of GEDCOM files from your own data file and these are supposed to be suitable to read into other popular genealogy programs This feature has not yet been tested by tbe writer Also GEDCOM files from other programs can be read into FTM Again this has not yet been tested and if the reader is using the latest version of Personal Ancestral File (produced by the Latter Day Saints) or some other current genealogy program then I would like you to contact me so f can arrange to test this feature

The FTM program allows splits and merges it also enables many charts to be printed rapidly (in black or in colour ifyour printer can handle colours) Charts include Ancestral Descendant and Outline Charts with a wide variety of choice in the infonnarion they contain As the writer uses only A4 paper some charts are limited to showing only a oouple of gent1alions but with a plotter much larger charts could be produced You can produce special reports and export them to programs like WORD You can also cut and paste text from any wordshyprocessor to FTM The FTM program w111 produce a booklet of your family tree complete with an index and table of contents Its built in word-processor is not very powerful but is satisfactory Version 40a will read in data from earlier versions and although it is nor bacl-wardty compatible you can create a GEDCOM file which can be read into the earlier versions

SUBMlSSIONS TO THE CLAN CENTRE

If you wish to submit your Family Hb10ry send it direct to Graeme McKen7ie at Clan Macmillan Center Fiolaystone Langbank PAI4 6TJ Scotland The phonefax number is 0011 -44-1475-540713 and the E-Mail address is Macmillan_centrecompuservecom

Paper copies of your family tree ought to be included in your mailing and if you wish to send 35 inch floppies of the da1a files from your genealogy program please ensure all disks are labelled and please prepare a written description ofwhat files are on each disk and detail the program used to produce them with the version number

HELP

If you want mOTe information please contact either myself or Graeme and we shall do our best to assist you

DONATIONS

rf you wish to support the work of Project MAOL send your donations direct to the Clan Centre or to the Australian Clan Macmillan Society

Best wishes

Page 6

appropriate legal authority to receive invest and disburse funds in accord with a charter setting forth the purposes and limitations which are to govern the Trustees in the stewardship of assets of the Foundation

The Community of the Tonsured Servant is not an Order of Chivalry but rather a company of companions patterned after the Cellic Rel igious Community of which Gillchrist was a member lis regalia is therefore ecclesiastical The Official Regalia consists of three elements the Medallion the Badge and the red Sash The Medallion is derived from the back of the monumental MacMillan Cross at Kilmory Knap It is an equilateral cross gold and engraved with an irregular Celtic knot design Both men and women alike wear it with formal attire suspended from the neck by a one inch red ribbon or from a short red ribbon on the left breast pocket The Badge of Honor is adapted from a design which incorporates a St Andrews Cross It has rays emanating from between the arms of the cross to the four paints of the Compass The Cross is argent (silver) and is surmounted by a MacMillan belted crest or (Gold) with a background of gules (red) The belt is inscribed with the Clan motto - miseris succerrure disco - I learn to the show mercy to the unfortunate The badge is worn by men on the left breast pocket of the doublet and beneath any military or civil decorations Ladies wear their badges at a comparable place on their gowns or else on the sash

The Sash of 4(gules) ribbon is approximately 6 long depending on the height of the wearer While most such sashes are worn over the right shoulder and joined at the left hip ours is placed deacon-wise over the left shoulder and joined with a rosette on the right hip A clan crest or Celtic pin is attached to the rosette from which a gold tassle is suspended Ladies may wear their sash over their gowns but under a tartan sash if such is worn Men wear their sashes at formal events under a doublet and over the shirt

TO euroltV Chr~CltNtd ow- e~hboun

TO leltwCOlaquoccoy the ~ TO wppOYt ow- chltef CltNtd ow-C~

TO ~ifPlide ow- he-~if

1 COMPANIONS eKo$cto- Officers of Clan MacMillan 2 COMPANIONS r~ - the contributors of $US500 (or $US250 for their

spouses) 3 COMPANIONS ~w~- persons who have serviced with distinction

either the Scottish Heritage or Clan MacMillan

Page 7

LETIIlR FR(tI CIAN cmEF Dear June

Weve just arrived home after a mos t enjoyable j ourney round the wor ld We have so many people to thank for it that it would be a tremendous hel- if you could circulate our thanks in your newsletter if it is not t oo late

We bOth enjoyed the party on 2 November enormously The ESU was a very nice place to have it and the room turned out to be just the right size for the job The food was delicious and we seemed to receive a constant supply of drinkS of all kinds mainly I suspect furnished by Harry Im afraid I didnt manage to get talking to everybody - probably because I spent so much time with old friends But it was nice to meet some new ones specially from among the younger generation

It was especial ly good of the non-MacMillans to come along and pipe and dance for us - inspired no doubt by Myrna I ought to have taken particulars of the dance they produced in honour of the occasion

Ive not yet had a chance to star t pl aying those CDs - a hugely generous pLesent - but lam very much looking forward to settling down to them Theyll not only be good listening in themselves but will remind us both of a really enjoyable family occasion Jane loves her stole too and thanks everybody very much for it

It s very nice to think that theres now an Australian member of the Community of the Tonsured Servant - though I hasten to add that its in recogshynition of past services and brings no obligations for the future I do feel that one thing we ought to be doi ng is encouragi ng younger kinsmen and women to establish links with others round the world who share their heritage For our part we welcome people here and are delighted to act as a base for youngsters coming here for the first t ime

Please give very best wishes to Max and the rest of your fami ly It was very nice to see them there in such strength

Yours ever

From left Russell Harrison( Sydney) Libby McMillan(President) June Senior Our Clan Chief George MacMillan of MacMillan and Knap and his wife Jane

Page 8

lHANK YOU TO fID4

Our President Libby McMillan has written an excellent report on our Clan gathering on 2nd November when we welcomed Clan Chief George and his wife Jane to Melbourne It was a wonderfully happy occasion and members who were unable to attend will enjoy readi ng about the event lam sure The Committee would like to thank all members who made a special donation We presented Jane with a lovely white stole hand knitted with Tasmanian merino wool and to George we presented four CDs featuring ~ustralian artists and music Your donations have also allowed us to give A$40S00 to the Clan Centre at Finlaystone and this will be forwarded with our annual donation A$28000 making a total of A$68500 for 1997 As well as a big thankyou to all our members for their generous donation I would like to thank the StAndrews(Mordialloc) Scottish Country Dance Group for their donation I received a letter from their Secretary Margaret Folley who wrote Thank you for the opportunity for our Group to dance at your Clan Gathering We enjoyed the afternoon and appreciated the friendliness shown to us by your group After hearing of the work being done by your clan to set up a Clan Research Centre our group would like to make a donation of $5000 towards your Centre Thank you to President Keith Smith Margarat and the Dancers of the group

SOCIElY FEES NOW lXlE

As from Octobersubscription of $1000 is due for 19971998 It would be appreciated if this amount could be forwarded to Mrs J Senior Treasurer at 41 Lincoln Ave Glen Waverley Vic 3150

~ big welcome to Mr amp Mrs Raymond Bell 17 Burke Rd Lalor Park Seven Hills NSW Mrs Margaret Peachey 29 Erslcine CresWheelers Hill Vic 3150 and Ian MD~illan 418 Duke St St Kilda Vic 3182 Margaret and Ian both attended our gathering and we were very happy to meet them

CIAN NEWSLETIERS Thank you to the Clans who send us their Newsletters These are read with interest May we extend Seasons Greetings to all our friends in other Clans

ltXMm EVEmS Berwick Gathering mid-February 1998 Geelong Gathering mid-March 1998 Ringwood Gathering 29 March 1998

~ group of our members at the gathering enjoy time to become acquainted Page 9

If lmClaimed please return to CLlN ~LAN SOCIETY (IIJSTRALIA) 41 LiOCJJln Ave Glen waverley vic3150

MCMILLAN HOLIDAY VILLAGE

Telephone 051 ) 56 nBJ 10 Box 66 Melun g Vicloti~ 3904

Telephone (03) 817 SISI Fax (03) 811596

JIiUW of $cotkJ I NEST SCOnlSH PRODUCTS

AUTH ENTiC CLAN KILTS

bull CLAN PLAQUES PIPE aoN D EQUIP MENT

bull DANCERS ACCESSORIES JEWEllRY

bull HIRE SERVICE SCOITISH CRAFTS

bull RECORDS VIDEOS bull A~ENnc TAR TANS

bull ~l1S bull F1PER FOR All f UNCnONS

l11i ~HIT(HOA5( AOD lWYN IOUPOENE llQJ IICTOA USTA ll II T 01

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ABOUT FAMILY TREE MAKER

This program is produced by Broderbund Software Banner Blue Division PO Box 6J25 Novato CA 9494g 6123 USA Their Technical Support Section is at Phone 001 1-1-415-510-794-6850 Fax 00 11-1-415-382-4419 E-Mail Broderbundcom

The Australian agent was (and probably still is) GampV Electronics 71 Drumalbyn Road Bellevue Hill NSW (PO Box 602 Woollahra 2025) Contact was Mr George Sherman phone 93620043

In Australia the program can nonnaJly be obtained retail through Harvey Nonnan stores at a cost of about $80 to S 150 depending on which issue of the program is purchased

There bas been over the past five years at least three versions of this program oommercially available Version 10 I followed by Version 34 and recently released in USA Version 40a which is not yet available in Australia Earlier issues of each version had a DOS based program on floppies alternatively there was a Windows issue or a deluxe issue which had a large data base of USA births death census marriage and other data The latest version runs under Windows 95 and comes on two CDs The Miter imported direct from Broderbund at about $A5500 The parcel took about a week to arrive With the program CDs there was an excellent handbook and there was a set of floppies which the writer found were useless without the CDs Some of the USA information is on the CDs Much more similar information is available in a library of about twenty CDs supplied by Broderbund at SUSA 9900 each

The FTM program is easy to install and use It requires at least I megabyte ofhard-disk space and ideally needs about 16 f11Csabyte of Ram The data files the user creates enable photographs of people to be scanned in and voices recorded however the files will become very targe but thee hard disk space can be limited by having a number of fiJes for a given family tree and storing off-line those not in use The data files can have any Dumber of people and the writerS master file has about 8500 people and occupies about 35 megabyte of space without any photo or voice information The prognun enables the file to be compressed and my data easily fits a 35 inch floppy in compressed fonnat The program will produce a variety of GEDCOM files from your own data file and these are supposed to be suitable to read into other popular genealogy programs This feature has not yet been tested by tbe writer Also GEDCOM files from other programs can be read into FTM Again this has not yet been tested and if the reader is using the latest version of Personal Ancestral File (produced by the Latter Day Saints) or some other current genealogy program then I would like you to contact me so f can arrange to test this feature

The FTM program allows splits and merges it also enables many charts to be printed rapidly (in black or in colour ifyour printer can handle colours) Charts include Ancestral Descendant and Outline Charts with a wide variety of choice in the infonnarion they contain As the writer uses only A4 paper some charts are limited to showing only a oouple of gent1alions but with a plotter much larger charts could be produced You can produce special reports and export them to programs like WORD You can also cut and paste text from any wordshyprocessor to FTM The FTM program w111 produce a booklet of your family tree complete with an index and table of contents Its built in word-processor is not very powerful but is satisfactory Version 40a will read in data from earlier versions and although it is nor bacl-wardty compatible you can create a GEDCOM file which can be read into the earlier versions

SUBMlSSIONS TO THE CLAN CENTRE

If you wish to submit your Family Hb10ry send it direct to Graeme McKen7ie at Clan Macmillan Center Fiolaystone Langbank PAI4 6TJ Scotland The phonefax number is 0011 -44-1475-540713 and the E-Mail address is Macmillan_centrecompuservecom

Paper copies of your family tree ought to be included in your mailing and if you wish to send 35 inch floppies of the da1a files from your genealogy program please ensure all disks are labelled and please prepare a written description ofwhat files are on each disk and detail the program used to produce them with the version number

HELP

If you want mOTe information please contact either myself or Graeme and we shall do our best to assist you

DONATIONS

rf you wish to support the work of Project MAOL send your donations direct to the Clan Centre or to the Australian Clan Macmillan Society

Best wishes

Page 6

appropriate legal authority to receive invest and disburse funds in accord with a charter setting forth the purposes and limitations which are to govern the Trustees in the stewardship of assets of the Foundation

The Community of the Tonsured Servant is not an Order of Chivalry but rather a company of companions patterned after the Cellic Rel igious Community of which Gillchrist was a member lis regalia is therefore ecclesiastical The Official Regalia consists of three elements the Medallion the Badge and the red Sash The Medallion is derived from the back of the monumental MacMillan Cross at Kilmory Knap It is an equilateral cross gold and engraved with an irregular Celtic knot design Both men and women alike wear it with formal attire suspended from the neck by a one inch red ribbon or from a short red ribbon on the left breast pocket The Badge of Honor is adapted from a design which incorporates a St Andrews Cross It has rays emanating from between the arms of the cross to the four paints of the Compass The Cross is argent (silver) and is surmounted by a MacMillan belted crest or (Gold) with a background of gules (red) The belt is inscribed with the Clan motto - miseris succerrure disco - I learn to the show mercy to the unfortunate The badge is worn by men on the left breast pocket of the doublet and beneath any military or civil decorations Ladies wear their badges at a comparable place on their gowns or else on the sash

The Sash of 4(gules) ribbon is approximately 6 long depending on the height of the wearer While most such sashes are worn over the right shoulder and joined at the left hip ours is placed deacon-wise over the left shoulder and joined with a rosette on the right hip A clan crest or Celtic pin is attached to the rosette from which a gold tassle is suspended Ladies may wear their sash over their gowns but under a tartan sash if such is worn Men wear their sashes at formal events under a doublet and over the shirt

TO euroltV Chr~CltNtd ow- e~hboun

TO leltwCOlaquoccoy the ~ TO wppOYt ow- chltef CltNtd ow-C~

TO ~ifPlide ow- he-~if

1 COMPANIONS eKo$cto- Officers of Clan MacMillan 2 COMPANIONS r~ - the contributors of $US500 (or $US250 for their

spouses) 3 COMPANIONS ~w~- persons who have serviced with distinction

either the Scottish Heritage or Clan MacMillan

Page 7

LETIIlR FR(tI CIAN cmEF Dear June

Weve just arrived home after a mos t enjoyable j ourney round the wor ld We have so many people to thank for it that it would be a tremendous hel- if you could circulate our thanks in your newsletter if it is not t oo late

We bOth enjoyed the party on 2 November enormously The ESU was a very nice place to have it and the room turned out to be just the right size for the job The food was delicious and we seemed to receive a constant supply of drinkS of all kinds mainly I suspect furnished by Harry Im afraid I didnt manage to get talking to everybody - probably because I spent so much time with old friends But it was nice to meet some new ones specially from among the younger generation

It was especial ly good of the non-MacMillans to come along and pipe and dance for us - inspired no doubt by Myrna I ought to have taken particulars of the dance they produced in honour of the occasion

Ive not yet had a chance to star t pl aying those CDs - a hugely generous pLesent - but lam very much looking forward to settling down to them Theyll not only be good listening in themselves but will remind us both of a really enjoyable family occasion Jane loves her stole too and thanks everybody very much for it

It s very nice to think that theres now an Australian member of the Community of the Tonsured Servant - though I hasten to add that its in recogshynition of past services and brings no obligations for the future I do feel that one thing we ought to be doi ng is encouragi ng younger kinsmen and women to establish links with others round the world who share their heritage For our part we welcome people here and are delighted to act as a base for youngsters coming here for the first t ime

Please give very best wishes to Max and the rest of your fami ly It was very nice to see them there in such strength

Yours ever

From left Russell Harrison( Sydney) Libby McMillan(President) June Senior Our Clan Chief George MacMillan of MacMillan and Knap and his wife Jane

Page 8

lHANK YOU TO fID4

Our President Libby McMillan has written an excellent report on our Clan gathering on 2nd November when we welcomed Clan Chief George and his wife Jane to Melbourne It was a wonderfully happy occasion and members who were unable to attend will enjoy readi ng about the event lam sure The Committee would like to thank all members who made a special donation We presented Jane with a lovely white stole hand knitted with Tasmanian merino wool and to George we presented four CDs featuring ~ustralian artists and music Your donations have also allowed us to give A$40S00 to the Clan Centre at Finlaystone and this will be forwarded with our annual donation A$28000 making a total of A$68500 for 1997 As well as a big thankyou to all our members for their generous donation I would like to thank the StAndrews(Mordialloc) Scottish Country Dance Group for their donation I received a letter from their Secretary Margaret Folley who wrote Thank you for the opportunity for our Group to dance at your Clan Gathering We enjoyed the afternoon and appreciated the friendliness shown to us by your group After hearing of the work being done by your clan to set up a Clan Research Centre our group would like to make a donation of $5000 towards your Centre Thank you to President Keith Smith Margarat and the Dancers of the group

SOCIElY FEES NOW lXlE

As from Octobersubscription of $1000 is due for 19971998 It would be appreciated if this amount could be forwarded to Mrs J Senior Treasurer at 41 Lincoln Ave Glen Waverley Vic 3150

~ big welcome to Mr amp Mrs Raymond Bell 17 Burke Rd Lalor Park Seven Hills NSW Mrs Margaret Peachey 29 Erslcine CresWheelers Hill Vic 3150 and Ian MD~illan 418 Duke St St Kilda Vic 3182 Margaret and Ian both attended our gathering and we were very happy to meet them

CIAN NEWSLETIERS Thank you to the Clans who send us their Newsletters These are read with interest May we extend Seasons Greetings to all our friends in other Clans

ltXMm EVEmS Berwick Gathering mid-February 1998 Geelong Gathering mid-March 1998 Ringwood Gathering 29 March 1998

~ group of our members at the gathering enjoy time to become acquainted Page 9

If lmClaimed please return to CLlN ~LAN SOCIETY (IIJSTRALIA) 41 LiOCJJln Ave Glen waverley vic3150

MCMILLAN HOLIDAY VILLAGE

Telephone 051 ) 56 nBJ 10 Box 66 Melun g Vicloti~ 3904

Telephone (03) 817 SISI Fax (03) 811596

JIiUW of $cotkJ I NEST SCOnlSH PRODUCTS

AUTH ENTiC CLAN KILTS

bull CLAN PLAQUES PIPE aoN D EQUIP MENT

bull DANCERS ACCESSORIES JEWEllRY

bull HIRE SERVICE SCOITISH CRAFTS

bull RECORDS VIDEOS bull A~ENnc TAR TANS

bull ~l1S bull F1PER FOR All f UNCnONS

l11i ~HIT(HOA5( AOD lWYN IOUPOENE llQJ IICTOA USTA ll II T 01

Page 10

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appropriate legal authority to receive invest and disburse funds in accord with a charter setting forth the purposes and limitations which are to govern the Trustees in the stewardship of assets of the Foundation

The Community of the Tonsured Servant is not an Order of Chivalry but rather a company of companions patterned after the Cellic Rel igious Community of which Gillchrist was a member lis regalia is therefore ecclesiastical The Official Regalia consists of three elements the Medallion the Badge and the red Sash The Medallion is derived from the back of the monumental MacMillan Cross at Kilmory Knap It is an equilateral cross gold and engraved with an irregular Celtic knot design Both men and women alike wear it with formal attire suspended from the neck by a one inch red ribbon or from a short red ribbon on the left breast pocket The Badge of Honor is adapted from a design which incorporates a St Andrews Cross It has rays emanating from between the arms of the cross to the four paints of the Compass The Cross is argent (silver) and is surmounted by a MacMillan belted crest or (Gold) with a background of gules (red) The belt is inscribed with the Clan motto - miseris succerrure disco - I learn to the show mercy to the unfortunate The badge is worn by men on the left breast pocket of the doublet and beneath any military or civil decorations Ladies wear their badges at a comparable place on their gowns or else on the sash

The Sash of 4(gules) ribbon is approximately 6 long depending on the height of the wearer While most such sashes are worn over the right shoulder and joined at the left hip ours is placed deacon-wise over the left shoulder and joined with a rosette on the right hip A clan crest or Celtic pin is attached to the rosette from which a gold tassle is suspended Ladies may wear their sash over their gowns but under a tartan sash if such is worn Men wear their sashes at formal events under a doublet and over the shirt

TO euroltV Chr~CltNtd ow- e~hboun

TO leltwCOlaquoccoy the ~ TO wppOYt ow- chltef CltNtd ow-C~

TO ~ifPlide ow- he-~if

1 COMPANIONS eKo$cto- Officers of Clan MacMillan 2 COMPANIONS r~ - the contributors of $US500 (or $US250 for their

spouses) 3 COMPANIONS ~w~- persons who have serviced with distinction

either the Scottish Heritage or Clan MacMillan

Page 7

LETIIlR FR(tI CIAN cmEF Dear June

Weve just arrived home after a mos t enjoyable j ourney round the wor ld We have so many people to thank for it that it would be a tremendous hel- if you could circulate our thanks in your newsletter if it is not t oo late

We bOth enjoyed the party on 2 November enormously The ESU was a very nice place to have it and the room turned out to be just the right size for the job The food was delicious and we seemed to receive a constant supply of drinkS of all kinds mainly I suspect furnished by Harry Im afraid I didnt manage to get talking to everybody - probably because I spent so much time with old friends But it was nice to meet some new ones specially from among the younger generation

It was especial ly good of the non-MacMillans to come along and pipe and dance for us - inspired no doubt by Myrna I ought to have taken particulars of the dance they produced in honour of the occasion

Ive not yet had a chance to star t pl aying those CDs - a hugely generous pLesent - but lam very much looking forward to settling down to them Theyll not only be good listening in themselves but will remind us both of a really enjoyable family occasion Jane loves her stole too and thanks everybody very much for it

It s very nice to think that theres now an Australian member of the Community of the Tonsured Servant - though I hasten to add that its in recogshynition of past services and brings no obligations for the future I do feel that one thing we ought to be doi ng is encouragi ng younger kinsmen and women to establish links with others round the world who share their heritage For our part we welcome people here and are delighted to act as a base for youngsters coming here for the first t ime

Please give very best wishes to Max and the rest of your fami ly It was very nice to see them there in such strength

Yours ever

From left Russell Harrison( Sydney) Libby McMillan(President) June Senior Our Clan Chief George MacMillan of MacMillan and Knap and his wife Jane

Page 8

lHANK YOU TO fID4

Our President Libby McMillan has written an excellent report on our Clan gathering on 2nd November when we welcomed Clan Chief George and his wife Jane to Melbourne It was a wonderfully happy occasion and members who were unable to attend will enjoy readi ng about the event lam sure The Committee would like to thank all members who made a special donation We presented Jane with a lovely white stole hand knitted with Tasmanian merino wool and to George we presented four CDs featuring ~ustralian artists and music Your donations have also allowed us to give A$40S00 to the Clan Centre at Finlaystone and this will be forwarded with our annual donation A$28000 making a total of A$68500 for 1997 As well as a big thankyou to all our members for their generous donation I would like to thank the StAndrews(Mordialloc) Scottish Country Dance Group for their donation I received a letter from their Secretary Margaret Folley who wrote Thank you for the opportunity for our Group to dance at your Clan Gathering We enjoyed the afternoon and appreciated the friendliness shown to us by your group After hearing of the work being done by your clan to set up a Clan Research Centre our group would like to make a donation of $5000 towards your Centre Thank you to President Keith Smith Margarat and the Dancers of the group

SOCIElY FEES NOW lXlE

As from Octobersubscription of $1000 is due for 19971998 It would be appreciated if this amount could be forwarded to Mrs J Senior Treasurer at 41 Lincoln Ave Glen Waverley Vic 3150

~ big welcome to Mr amp Mrs Raymond Bell 17 Burke Rd Lalor Park Seven Hills NSW Mrs Margaret Peachey 29 Erslcine CresWheelers Hill Vic 3150 and Ian MD~illan 418 Duke St St Kilda Vic 3182 Margaret and Ian both attended our gathering and we were very happy to meet them

CIAN NEWSLETIERS Thank you to the Clans who send us their Newsletters These are read with interest May we extend Seasons Greetings to all our friends in other Clans

ltXMm EVEmS Berwick Gathering mid-February 1998 Geelong Gathering mid-March 1998 Ringwood Gathering 29 March 1998

~ group of our members at the gathering enjoy time to become acquainted Page 9

If lmClaimed please return to CLlN ~LAN SOCIETY (IIJSTRALIA) 41 LiOCJJln Ave Glen waverley vic3150

MCMILLAN HOLIDAY VILLAGE

Telephone 051 ) 56 nBJ 10 Box 66 Melun g Vicloti~ 3904

Telephone (03) 817 SISI Fax (03) 811596

JIiUW of $cotkJ I NEST SCOnlSH PRODUCTS

AUTH ENTiC CLAN KILTS

bull CLAN PLAQUES PIPE aoN D EQUIP MENT

bull DANCERS ACCESSORIES JEWEllRY

bull HIRE SERVICE SCOITISH CRAFTS

bull RECORDS VIDEOS bull A~ENnc TAR TANS

bull ~l1S bull F1PER FOR All f UNCnONS

l11i ~HIT(HOA5( AOD lWYN IOUPOENE llQJ IICTOA USTA ll II T 01

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LETIIlR FR(tI CIAN cmEF Dear June

Weve just arrived home after a mos t enjoyable j ourney round the wor ld We have so many people to thank for it that it would be a tremendous hel- if you could circulate our thanks in your newsletter if it is not t oo late

We bOth enjoyed the party on 2 November enormously The ESU was a very nice place to have it and the room turned out to be just the right size for the job The food was delicious and we seemed to receive a constant supply of drinkS of all kinds mainly I suspect furnished by Harry Im afraid I didnt manage to get talking to everybody - probably because I spent so much time with old friends But it was nice to meet some new ones specially from among the younger generation

It was especial ly good of the non-MacMillans to come along and pipe and dance for us - inspired no doubt by Myrna I ought to have taken particulars of the dance they produced in honour of the occasion

Ive not yet had a chance to star t pl aying those CDs - a hugely generous pLesent - but lam very much looking forward to settling down to them Theyll not only be good listening in themselves but will remind us both of a really enjoyable family occasion Jane loves her stole too and thanks everybody very much for it

It s very nice to think that theres now an Australian member of the Community of the Tonsured Servant - though I hasten to add that its in recogshynition of past services and brings no obligations for the future I do feel that one thing we ought to be doi ng is encouragi ng younger kinsmen and women to establish links with others round the world who share their heritage For our part we welcome people here and are delighted to act as a base for youngsters coming here for the first t ime

Please give very best wishes to Max and the rest of your fami ly It was very nice to see them there in such strength

Yours ever

From left Russell Harrison( Sydney) Libby McMillan(President) June Senior Our Clan Chief George MacMillan of MacMillan and Knap and his wife Jane

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lHANK YOU TO fID4

Our President Libby McMillan has written an excellent report on our Clan gathering on 2nd November when we welcomed Clan Chief George and his wife Jane to Melbourne It was a wonderfully happy occasion and members who were unable to attend will enjoy readi ng about the event lam sure The Committee would like to thank all members who made a special donation We presented Jane with a lovely white stole hand knitted with Tasmanian merino wool and to George we presented four CDs featuring ~ustralian artists and music Your donations have also allowed us to give A$40S00 to the Clan Centre at Finlaystone and this will be forwarded with our annual donation A$28000 making a total of A$68500 for 1997 As well as a big thankyou to all our members for their generous donation I would like to thank the StAndrews(Mordialloc) Scottish Country Dance Group for their donation I received a letter from their Secretary Margaret Folley who wrote Thank you for the opportunity for our Group to dance at your Clan Gathering We enjoyed the afternoon and appreciated the friendliness shown to us by your group After hearing of the work being done by your clan to set up a Clan Research Centre our group would like to make a donation of $5000 towards your Centre Thank you to President Keith Smith Margarat and the Dancers of the group

SOCIElY FEES NOW lXlE

As from Octobersubscription of $1000 is due for 19971998 It would be appreciated if this amount could be forwarded to Mrs J Senior Treasurer at 41 Lincoln Ave Glen Waverley Vic 3150

~ big welcome to Mr amp Mrs Raymond Bell 17 Burke Rd Lalor Park Seven Hills NSW Mrs Margaret Peachey 29 Erslcine CresWheelers Hill Vic 3150 and Ian MD~illan 418 Duke St St Kilda Vic 3182 Margaret and Ian both attended our gathering and we were very happy to meet them

CIAN NEWSLETIERS Thank you to the Clans who send us their Newsletters These are read with interest May we extend Seasons Greetings to all our friends in other Clans

ltXMm EVEmS Berwick Gathering mid-February 1998 Geelong Gathering mid-March 1998 Ringwood Gathering 29 March 1998

~ group of our members at the gathering enjoy time to become acquainted Page 9

If lmClaimed please return to CLlN ~LAN SOCIETY (IIJSTRALIA) 41 LiOCJJln Ave Glen waverley vic3150

MCMILLAN HOLIDAY VILLAGE

Telephone 051 ) 56 nBJ 10 Box 66 Melun g Vicloti~ 3904

Telephone (03) 817 SISI Fax (03) 811596

JIiUW of $cotkJ I NEST SCOnlSH PRODUCTS

AUTH ENTiC CLAN KILTS

bull CLAN PLAQUES PIPE aoN D EQUIP MENT

bull DANCERS ACCESSORIES JEWEllRY

bull HIRE SERVICE SCOITISH CRAFTS

bull RECORDS VIDEOS bull A~ENnc TAR TANS

bull ~l1S bull F1PER FOR All f UNCnONS

l11i ~HIT(HOA5( AOD lWYN IOUPOENE llQJ IICTOA USTA ll II T 01

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lHANK YOU TO fID4

Our President Libby McMillan has written an excellent report on our Clan gathering on 2nd November when we welcomed Clan Chief George and his wife Jane to Melbourne It was a wonderfully happy occasion and members who were unable to attend will enjoy readi ng about the event lam sure The Committee would like to thank all members who made a special donation We presented Jane with a lovely white stole hand knitted with Tasmanian merino wool and to George we presented four CDs featuring ~ustralian artists and music Your donations have also allowed us to give A$40S00 to the Clan Centre at Finlaystone and this will be forwarded with our annual donation A$28000 making a total of A$68500 for 1997 As well as a big thankyou to all our members for their generous donation I would like to thank the StAndrews(Mordialloc) Scottish Country Dance Group for their donation I received a letter from their Secretary Margaret Folley who wrote Thank you for the opportunity for our Group to dance at your Clan Gathering We enjoyed the afternoon and appreciated the friendliness shown to us by your group After hearing of the work being done by your clan to set up a Clan Research Centre our group would like to make a donation of $5000 towards your Centre Thank you to President Keith Smith Margarat and the Dancers of the group

SOCIElY FEES NOW lXlE

As from Octobersubscription of $1000 is due for 19971998 It would be appreciated if this amount could be forwarded to Mrs J Senior Treasurer at 41 Lincoln Ave Glen Waverley Vic 3150

~ big welcome to Mr amp Mrs Raymond Bell 17 Burke Rd Lalor Park Seven Hills NSW Mrs Margaret Peachey 29 Erslcine CresWheelers Hill Vic 3150 and Ian MD~illan 418 Duke St St Kilda Vic 3182 Margaret and Ian both attended our gathering and we were very happy to meet them

CIAN NEWSLETIERS Thank you to the Clans who send us their Newsletters These are read with interest May we extend Seasons Greetings to all our friends in other Clans

ltXMm EVEmS Berwick Gathering mid-February 1998 Geelong Gathering mid-March 1998 Ringwood Gathering 29 March 1998

~ group of our members at the gathering enjoy time to become acquainted Page 9

If lmClaimed please return to CLlN ~LAN SOCIETY (IIJSTRALIA) 41 LiOCJJln Ave Glen waverley vic3150

MCMILLAN HOLIDAY VILLAGE

Telephone 051 ) 56 nBJ 10 Box 66 Melun g Vicloti~ 3904

Telephone (03) 817 SISI Fax (03) 811596

JIiUW of $cotkJ I NEST SCOnlSH PRODUCTS

AUTH ENTiC CLAN KILTS

bull CLAN PLAQUES PIPE aoN D EQUIP MENT

bull DANCERS ACCESSORIES JEWEllRY

bull HIRE SERVICE SCOITISH CRAFTS

bull RECORDS VIDEOS bull A~ENnc TAR TANS

bull ~l1S bull F1PER FOR All f UNCnONS

l11i ~HIT(HOA5( AOD lWYN IOUPOENE llQJ IICTOA USTA ll II T 01

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If lmClaimed please return to CLlN ~LAN SOCIETY (IIJSTRALIA) 41 LiOCJJln Ave Glen waverley vic3150

MCMILLAN HOLIDAY VILLAGE

Telephone 051 ) 56 nBJ 10 Box 66 Melun g Vicloti~ 3904

Telephone (03) 817 SISI Fax (03) 811596

JIiUW of $cotkJ I NEST SCOnlSH PRODUCTS

AUTH ENTiC CLAN KILTS

bull CLAN PLAQUES PIPE aoN D EQUIP MENT

bull DANCERS ACCESSORIES JEWEllRY

bull HIRE SERVICE SCOITISH CRAFTS

bull RECORDS VIDEOS bull A~ENnc TAR TANS

bull ~l1S bull F1PER FOR All f UNCnONS

l11i ~HIT(HOA5( AOD lWYN IOUPOENE llQJ IICTOA USTA ll II T 01

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